CA, CS, CMA : A comprehensive review of significant developments across Income Tax, GST, Customs, DGFT, SEBI, MCA, IBBI, and RBI. The update hig...
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Goods and Services Tax : The Bill introduces relief on post-supply discounts, export taxation, refunds and intermediary services. It also simplifies custom...
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Notification No. 21/2015-Central Excise Dated- 8th April, 2015 Central Government exempts goods specified in First Schedule and Second Schedule to Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985, when cleared against a Service Exports from India Scheme duty credit scrip
Notification No. 20/2015-Central Excise Dated- 8th April, 2015 Govt. exempts goods specified in First Schedule and Second Schedule to Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 , when cleared against a duty credit scrip issued by the Regional Authority under Merchandise Exports from India Scheme
Provided further that the said scrip has not been issued in violation of the condition contained in the sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 101 of 2009 – Customs, dated the 11th September, 2009 or sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 102 of 2009 – Customs, dated the 11th September, 2009 or the second proviso to sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 05 of 2013 – Customs, dated the 18th February, 2013 or sub- paragraph (3) of paragraph 2 of notification No. 22 of 2013 – Customs, dated the 18th April, 2013 or first proviso to sub-paragraph
The Central Government vide Notification No. 18/ 2015 – Central Excise dated April 1, 2015 has exempted the goods specified in the First Schedule and the Second Schedule to the Excise Tariff Act, when cleared against a Post Export EPCG duty credit scrip issued by the Regional Authority in accordance with Paragraph 5.12 of the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020, which provides for duty remission in proportion to export obligation fulfilled from:
Kind attention is drawn to Hon’ble Finance Minister’s Budget Speech on the facility of maintenance of records in electronic form and authentication of records by Digital Signature for Central Excise assesses. Sub rule (4), (5) in Rule 10 and sub-rule (8), (9) in Rule 11 of Central Excise Rules, 2002 have been inserted vide Notification No. 8/2015-CE (N.T.) dated 01.03.2015 to initiate the implementation of the said facility.
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 Department vide OM of even number dated 19.2.2015 and 5.3.2015
The Central Board of Excise & Customs (CBEC) is celebrating the Year 2015 as the Year of Taxpayer Services in recognition of the need to have ‘customer focus’ in our day-to-day functioning. The Tax Administration Reforms Commission (TARC) has devoted a full Chapter to ‘Customer Focus’ in its first Report.
As you aware that Central Bureau of Investigation is a predominantly deputationist organization, hence we keep requiring services of officers from different organizations for induction. This would be advantageous for both the organizations. The Bureau would gainfully utilize the expertise and experience of the officers for investigation of complex cases and after their repatriation the experience gained by them in CBI would benefit the parent organizations.
The National Litigation Policy (NLP) formulated by the Government of India aims to reduce Government litigation so that Government ceases to be a compulsive litigant. The purpose underlying this Policy is to ensure that valuable time of the Courts is spent in resolving pending cases and in bringing down the average pending time in the Courts. To achieve this, the Government should become an ‘efficient’ and ‘responsible’ litigant.
I am directed to say that it has been observed that in many litigation cases pending before various Courts, where the Union of India (UOI) is the Petitioner or the Respondent, Government interests are not being defended with adequate diligence. There is, therefore, a need of putting a system in place so that the cases are regularly monitored and the interest of the UOI is properly safeguarded before the Courts of Law.
