In order to further liberalize the portfolio investment route, the Union Finance Minister Shri Pranab Mukherjee had announced in the 2011-12 Budget to permit SEBI registered Mutual Funds (MFs) to accept subscriptions for equity schemes from foreign investors who meet the Know Your Customer/client(KYC) requirements. After due consultations with the Regulators and other stakeholders, the scheme was finalized to be announced in the first week of August 2011.
Following the announcement in the Annual Policy Statement for the year 2009-10, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) constituted a Working Group on Benchmark Prime Lending Rate (BPLR) to review the present BPLR system and suggest changes to make credit pricing more transparent. Based on the recommendations of the Group and the suggestions from various stakeholders, it has been decided that banks switch over to the system of Base Rate.
Government is working on a Bill that envisages an Ombudsman to look into the complaints against lawyers and a Legal Services Board that would regulate law practices in the country. Giving this information in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha, Shri Salman Khurshid, Minister of Law & Justice informed the House that a draft Bill titled “Legal Practitioners (Regulation and Maintenance of Standards in Profession,
LETTER [F.NO. 137/25/2011 – SERVICE TAX], Representations have been received seeking clarification regarding leviability of service tax on the additional amount that is collected towards the delay in making payment to the stock brokers by their customers (delayed payment charges) in respect of Stock Broker’s services.
The Government of India today approved the extension of the term of Dr. D. Subbarao as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India. Dr. Subbarao’s term has been extended for a period of two years with effect from September 5, 2011 up to September 4, 2013.
Under pressure to unearth blackmoney, the Income Tax department has tracked down over 50 high-value defaulters, who had declared their assets to be zero, with tax liability of over Rs 10 crore.
Notification No. 107/2011 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (a) of sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Minimum Wages Act, 1948 (Central Act XI of 1948) read with sub-section (2) of section 5 thereof, the Government of Kerala after considering the objections and suggestions received on the draft proposal previously published under Notification No. 10690/E1/2007/LBR, dated 13-12-2010 in the Kerala
NOTIFICATION No.71 /2011-CUSTOMS in the matter of continuation of anti-dumping duty on ‘Partially Oriented Yarn(POY)’, falling under heading 5402 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in, or exported from, the China PR imposed vide notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue),No. 92/2007-Customs, dated the 3rd August, 2007, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R.535 (E), dated the 3rd August, 2007, and has requested for extension of anti-dumping duty upto one more year, in terms of sub-section (5) of Section 9A of the said Customs Tariff Act;
Notification No.73/2011-Customs, In the matter of continuation of anti-dumping duty on imports of nylon filament yarn of specification ‘synthetic filament yarn including synthetic monofilament of less than 67 decitex, of nylon or other polyamides falling under Chapter 54 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), excluding all high tenacity yarn of nylon including fishnet yarn of nylon, originating in, or exported from, People’s Republic of China, Chinese Taipei, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and People’s Republic of Korea ,imposed vide notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue),No. 85/2006-Customs, dated the 29th August, 2006, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R.512(E), dated the 29th August, 2006, and had recommended for extension of anti-dumping duty, in terms of sub-section (5) of section 9A of the said Customs Tariff Act;
NOTIFICATION No.72 /2011-CUSTOMS Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 9A of the said Customs Tariff Act read with rules 13 and 20 of the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, the Central Government, on the basis of the aforesaid findings of the designated authority, hereby imposes on the subject goods, the description of which is specified in column (3) of the Table below, falling under heading of the First Schedule to the said Customs Tariff Act as specified in the corresponding entry in column (2), originating in the country specified in the corresponding entry in column (4), and produced by the producer specified in the corresponding entry in column (5) and exported by the exporter specified in the corresponding entry in column (6), and imported into India, an anti-dumping duty equal to the amount arrived at by applying the percentage indicated in the corresponding entry in column (7), of the said Table.
