except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby determines that the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currency specified in column (2) of each of Schedule I and Schedule II annexed hereto into Indian currency or vice versa shall, with effect from 1st July, 2010 be the rate mentioned against it in the corresponding entry in column (3) thereof, for the purpose of the said section, relating to imported and export goods.
The new composition provides a simpler method of calculating tax liability. In a bid to reduce the cost of administering small traders in the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime, the finance ministry plans to collect taxes from businesses below a turnover of Rs 1 crore at a defined floor rate, which will be much lower than the GST rate.
And whereas, on the basis of the aforesaid findings of the Director General (Safeguards), the Central Government had imposed Safeguard duty on imports of the subject goods vide notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 122/2009-Customs, dated the 5th November, 2009, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), dated the 5th November, 2009, vide number G.S.R.797 (E), dated the 5th November, 2009;
Among the legal questions clouding the merger of Bank of Rajasthan with ICICI Bank is whether the Tayals’ shares, lying in a demat account frozen on SEBI directions, can be extinguished.A SEBI order, this March, restrained 100 entities, including BoR promoters — the Tayals — “from accessing the securities market and further buying, selling or dealing in securities in any manner whatsoever, with immediate effect, until further directions.”
The role of independent directors (IDs) on the board of Indian companies will be clarified in the new Companies Bill and their responsibilities will be made finite in terms of what they are answerable for, said Union Corporate Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid.
The Bombay high court last week ruled that a labour dispute can be referred to the tribunal under the Industrial Disputes Act at the instance of an unrecognised workers’ union. In this dispute between Bharat Forge Ltd and Maharashtra General Kamgar Mahasangh, the recognised union had 800 workers at the Pune plant.
EET :EET will not include Government Provident Fund (GPF), PPF, Recognised Provided Funds, Pension Scheme administered by Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority as well as approved pure life insurance products and annuity scheme. These will be governed by EEE.
Three persons, including a former IAF staffer, who were arrested by the CBI for cheating a chartered accountant of over Rs 75 lakh, were on Wednesday remanded in judicial custody by a sessions court. The accused had allegedly cheated the complainant on the pretext of helping him to sell his products and getting some of his projects pending with the government cleared.
The Direct Taxes Committee has been receiving emails/ letters from various members seeking opinion on tax related queries. It may however be noted that as a matter of policy the Committees of the Institute do not undertake to express any view which would amount to an opinion or interpretation of a statutory provision.
Limitation period means the time within which a person must file his case before a judicial authority for exercising his rights. This period is to be calculated from the date of the cause of action. This term does not have any definition, but it is well settled that “cause of action” is a mixed question of fact and law. It has consistently been held that for insurance disputes, the cause of action starts from the date of rejection of the claim.
