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Custom Duty - We found two Notification on CBEC website of Same Number i.e. Notification No. Notification No. 13/2017-Service Tax. Both are dated differently and are related to different subject. While one is dated as 12th April, 2017 and other one is dated 13th April, 2017. ...
Read MoreCustom Duty - CBDT has vide notification No. 21/2017 released ITR forms for Assessment Year 2017-18 / Financial Year 2016-17. The number of ITR Forms have been reduced from the existing nine to seven forms. The existing ITR Forms ITR-2, ITR-2A and ITR-3 have been rationalized and a single ITR-2 has been notified in place of these three forms. Consequen...
Read MoreCustom Duty - Recently, the central excise department has started issuing SCNs for recover of central excise duty on the Industrial Promotion Subsidy received by assessees in Maharshtra state....
Read MoreCustom Duty - Section 146 of The Customs Act, 1962 states that no person shall carry on business as an agent relating to the entry or departure of a conveyance or the import or export of goods at any Customs station unless such person holds a license granted in this behalf in accordance with regulations made in this regard by the Board....
Read MoreCustom Duty - Inter-linking provisions in Customs Act, 1962, Central Excise Act, 1944 & Finance Act, 1994. Introduction You might have noticed that at times, a statute may have certain provisions, which borrow provisions from other statutes. At times, borrowed provisions of other statutes may be specifically mentioned in the borrowing provision. So...
Read MoreCustom Duty - Temporary ROSL Scroll of smaller amounts (10-15 Cr.) to be generated, so that rejections, if any, does not affect major number of SBs / Exporters. One Scroll may be generated for every week starting after last ROSL scroll generation date, latest till May 2017. Drawback Officers to be directed to complete the entire process for a week's fi...
Read MoreCustom Duty - The indirect tax collections (Central Excise, Service Tax and Customs) in FY 2016-17are at Rs 63 lakh crore, which is 22.0% higher than the actual revenue receipts in FY 2015-16. Till March 2017, about 101.35% of the Revised Estimates (RE) of indirect taxes for Financial Year 2016-17 has been achieved....
Read MoreCustom Duty - FM approves the re-organisation of the field formations of the Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) for the implementation of Goods & Services Tax (GST); CBEC is being renamed as the Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs (CBIC), after getting legislative approval...
Read MoreCustom Duty - CBEC Partner Connectivity Protocol – Solution for CBEC field formations managed by Custodians (under the HCCAR, 2009) requiring IT infrastructure and connectivity with CBEC Data Centre...
Read MoreCustom Duty - Department of Revenue had withdrawn custom duty exemption in case of 76 drugs where sufficient indigenous capacity was available and bulk of the requirement was being met from indigenous sources....
Read MoreDecisions of High Court and CESTAT against which Board has decided not to file Special Leave Petition or Civil Appeal in Supreme Court...
Read MoreUhde India Pvt. Ltd Vs Union of India (Bombay High Court) - The Bombay High Court today (17.01.2013) granted ad-interim stay against coercive recovery pursuant to Circular No. 967/01/2013 – CX, Dated 1st January, 2013 issued by the Central Board of Excise and Customs. ...
Read MoreBE. GELB Consultancy Services v. CCE (CESTAT Chennai) - A transaction in intellectual property (IP) along with the right to manufacture the licensed product is totally different from the technical assistance rendered by an engineer or a firm of engineers; when IP services are brought under the tax net without altering the scope of "Consulting Engineer Se...
Read MoreN.A. - (01/12/2015) - The Standard Operating Procedures for handling litigation in the Supreme Court, High Court and CESTAT has been a long felt need. This Manual of SOP is one of the flagship documents published from the Directorate of Legal Affairs, to streamline handling of litigation in the Department....
Read MoreG.S.R. 690 (E) - (09/09/2015) - Director General (DG) of Safeguards Recommends Imposition of Provisional Safeguard Duty @ 20%, for a Period of 200 Days for Hot-Rolled Flat Products of Non-Alloy and other Alloy Steel in Coils of a Width of 600 MM OR More; Recommendations of the DG Safeguards to be Examined by the Board of Safeguard...
Read More01/Ad.IV/2015 - (03/08/2015) - Consequent upon, the decision of the Board to create a GST Directorate in Delhi by shifting the headquarters of DGST, Mumbai to Delhi, it has been decided that Directorate General of Service Tax (DGST) will henceforth be re-named as Directorate General pf Goods & Service tax (DGGST) w.e.f. 01.08.201...
Read MoreF. No. C-50/50/2015-Ad.II - (20/03/2015) - An online system viz. Anubhav has been developed for showcasing outstanding work done by the retiring Government employees during service. Instructions for use of this application by the retiring employees, Head of Offices/ Head of Departments in the Ministries/ Departments have been issued by this ...
Read MoreCircular No. 180/06/2014 – ST - (14/10/2014) - Vide circular No. 163/14/2012–ST, dated 10th July, 2012, on the issue of levy of service tax on the activities involved in the inward remittance it was clarified that there is no service tax per se on the foreign exchange remitted to India from outside for the reason that money does not constitute...
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