Entry 84 of the Union List of the Schedule VII read with clause 1 of Article 246 of the Constitution of India empowers Central Government with exclusive power to make laws in respect of Duties of excise on goods manufactured or produced in India except alcoholic liquors for human consumption, opium, Indian hemp and other narcotic drugs and narcotics etc., Thus, the Central Government does not have power to levy Central Excise duty on Alcoholic liquors.
* All 8 sitting council members elected. Pune made a come back with Zaware sir. Ahmedabad secured its seat as usual in Dhinal Shah, FYI, his father Shri Ashwin C Shah was too in Central Council for 3 terms consecutively.Nilesh Vikamsey came a new entrant to council. FYI, his brother Kamlesh Vikamsey too had been in Central Council for two terms and is also a past president of our Institute
Notification No. 185 / 2009-Customs (N.T.) -Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the Deputy / Assistant Commissioner of Customs (Air Cargo Complex), New Delhi to act as a common adjudicating authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred or imposed on,- the Deputy / Assistant Commissioner of Customs (Air Cargo Complex), Kolkata; the Deputy / Assistant Commissioner of Customs (Air Cargo Complex), Mumbai; the Deputy / Assistant Commissioner of Customs (ICD CONCOR), Jaipur; and the Deputy / Assistant Commissioner of Customs, JNCH, Nhava Sheva,
Notification No. 184 / 2008-Customs (N.T.) tral Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the Commissioner of Customs and Central Excise, Goa to act as a common adjudicating authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred or imposed on:- the Commissioner of Customs, Jawaharlal Nehru Custom House, Nhava Sheva, Raigad, Maharashtra, the Commissioner of Customs, Kandla; and the Commissioner of Customs (Export), New Custom House, Ballard Estate, Mumbai,
Notification No. 183 / 2009-Customs (N.T.) In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 4 and sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the Commissioner of Customs, Inland Container depot, Tughlakabad, New Delhi to act as a common adjudicating authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred or imposed on,-
Based on feedback received from Exchanges, it has been decided to allow Exchanges to set any period of time during the delivery month as the delivery period for the deliverable grade securities.
The Discussion Paper has envisaged a model of dual GST which has got certain structural defects that need to be pointed out for correction before the second Paper comes out. The proposed GST is an under achievement compared to the professed idea of a conceptually correct GST. It is an imperfect GST which has four rates with probably numerous exemptions, four thresholds, several taxes outside GST, a highly complicated system for inter-State credit of input tax and finally with no certainty that States will always abide by the fixed rates of tax. It is destined to be more complicated and ill administered than now.
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) has revised its internal audit standards to strengthen internal audit practices in the country. The current revision, approved by the ICAI council last week, addresses issues such as effects of laws and regulations in conducting internal audit, responsibility of management for compliance with laws and regulations, responsibility of internal auditor and internal audit procedures.
Auditors Nayak and Kishnadwala, who are doing special audit for telecom major Bharti Airtel, have sought extension from the government by one-and- a-half months to submit the report. In April, DoT had ordered a special audit on five telecom companies — Bharti Airtel, Vodafone-Essar, Tata Teleservices, Idea Cellular and Reliance Communication — to check alleged mis-reporting of revenue to evade taxes and licence fee.
This follows a renewed effort by CBDT to seek clarification on the issue. The finance ministry has decided to keep the issue of taxing participatory notes (P-Notes) on the back burner to encourage foreign inflows. These views follow a renewed effort by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to seek a clarification on the taxation of the P-Notes. Sources said the clarification was sought since it was noticed that the issuance of these notes had gone up, following a buoyancy in the equity market.
