In order to maximize the reach of AEO programme, it has been decided by the competent authority to decentralise the processing of AEO applications so as to meet the objective of trade facilitation and ease of doing business.
Attention of all the officers and staff of JNCH, particularly, SIIB(Import), SIIB (Export), CIU, Centralized Legal Section, Centralized Adjudication Section (CAC), all Appraising Groups of all Commissionerates of JNCH is invited to importance of systematic data capture and proper use of DIGIT.
Anti-dumping duty paid on and after 29th August, 2017, under notification No. 40/2012 Customs (ADD) dated the 30th August, 2012, shall be refunded to the person who in fact paid the ADD, without passing on the burden of the same, in accordance with law.
Section 28(iiid) provides that any profit on transfer of the Duty Entitlement Pass Book Scheme, being the Duty Remission Scheme under the export and import policy formulated and announced under section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 (22 of 1992) shall be chargeable to income-tax under the head Profits and gains of business or profession.
Section 28 provides for income that is chargeable to income tax under the head profit and gains from business or profession. As per sub-section (iiia) of section 28, profit on sale of license granted under the Imports (Control) Order, 1955, made under the Imports and Exports (Control) Act, 1947 is chargeable to tax under the head profit and gains from business or profession.
The Finance Act, 2015, with a view to phase out weighted deduction under Section 35(2AB) of the Act, restricted the allowability of expenditure incurred on scientific research (other than expenditure in the nature of cost of any land or building) on in-house research and development facility incurred on and from 1 April 2020 to 100 per cent from the existing 200 per cent.
The CBDT introduced the rollback rules under the APA program on 14 March 2015. There were some ambiguities about the implementation of the rollback rules, and therefore, CBDT issued Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) clarifying certain issues.
The Finance Act 2012 has introduced DTP in spite of existing provisions under the Act which empower the Assessing Officer (AO) to re-compute the income of assessees availing profit-linked deductions if there are transactions with related parties or other undertakings of the same assessee
The Finance Act, 2017 introduced limitation of interest benefit (deduction) provisions in where an Indian company, or a permanent establishment of a foreign company in India, being the borrower, pays interest exceeding rupees one crore in respect of any debt issued/guaranteed (implicitly or explicitly) by a non-resident AE.
Section 95 was amended via the Finance Act, 2015 to provide that provisions of Chapter X-A relating to General Anti-Avoidance Rule (GAAR) are made applicable from A.Y. 2018-19. In effect, the applicability of GAAR is deferred by two years.
