Corporate Law : On account of the Pandemic outburst of COVID-19, the Central Government declared a complete lockdown from 25th March, 2020 onwards...
Corporate Law : The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department of Commerce vide SEZ Division Letter in D.12/25/2012-SEZ, dated October 28, 2014...
Corporate Law : As part of ‘Ease of Doing Business’ initiative of Department of Commerce (DOC), following transactions were identified by DOC ...
Income Tax : Ministry of Commerce & Industry 378 SEZs are presently notified, out of which 265 are operational Posted On: 10 MAR 2021 The S...
Corporate Law : In all other matters, the concerned DC, SEZ should take all necessary steps, including consultation with Government Counsel and re...
Goods and Services Tax : The issue under consideration is whether the petitioner is eligible for exemption from payment of entry tax based on certificates ...
Corporate Law : Government clarifies that SEZ Developers and Units can submit BLUT electronically, dispensing with stamp paper and notarization re...
Corporate Law : The Commerce Ministry revised SEZ-Online user charges after migration of transactions to ICEGATE reduced operational viability. Ne...
Corporate Law : The issue concerned regulatory handling of restructuring in IFSC units. The instruction clarifies that IFSCA will intimate SEZ aut...
Corporate Law : Instruction 121 from the SEZ Division details the process for IT/ITES SEZ developers to convert demarcated Non-Processing Area (NP...
Corporate Law : India's Commerce Ministry clarifies that SOFTEX form filing isn't mandatory for service exports between SEZ units or from a DTA un...
Amendment to Instruction No. 9 regarding Procedure for Reimbursement of Duty (ROD) in lieu of drawback for supply of goods to SEZ Developers against Indian Rupees.
Instruction regarding documents to be forwarded for full notification/additional area notification/partial de-notification/full de-notification/change of name of developer or co-developer and shifting of unit from one SEZ to another SEZ-reg.
Power Guidelines for power Generation, Transmission and Distribution in Special Economic Zones (SEZs) were issued on 27th February, 2009 and subsequently replaced by the guidelines issued on 21st March, 2012.These guidelines were further reviewed and guidelines dated 21st March, 2012 were withdrawn vide letter dated 6th April, 2015.
Instruction No. 84/SEZ, Dated : April 16, 2015 With a view to promote the ease of doing business further, it is advised that SEZ Units are now allowed to remove goods for repair, replacement, testing, calibration, quality testing and research and development purposes also on selfattestation basis under intimation to the Specified Officer and on giving an undertaking to the Authorised Officer for return of such goods. A record of these will be maintained by the unit as per SEZ Rules.
The undersigned is directed to say that guidelines for power generation, transmission and distribution in Special Economic Zones issued vide this Ministry’s letter of even number dated 21st March, 2012 stand withdrawn with immediate effect i.e 1st April, 2015.
In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 55 of the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005 (28 of 2005), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Special Economic Zones Rules, 2006, namely:-
F. No. B1/6/2013-TRU Dated- 25th November, 2014 Certain representations have been received through Ministry of Commerce raising the issue that SEZ unit or developer has to approach two authorities (the SEZ authority and with the Jurisdictional Service Tax authority) for upfront exemption under notification No. 12/2013 dated 01.07.2013 as amended.
Instruction No. 83 Dated 21st November, 2014 Representations have been received in this Department that despite issue of default list of authorised services by DoC, the SEZ Developers and Units are forced to apply, a fresh to UAC even for those authorized services which are already approved earlier by the UAC for the said Developers/Units.
The Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Department of Commerce vide SEZ Division Letter in D.12/25/2012-SEZ, dated October 28, 2014, has harmonized the Rules, formats and fees in all the SEZs formats by standardizing the following procedures for adaption in all Zones:
As part of ‘Ease of Doing Business’ initiative of Department of Commerce (DOC), following transactions were identified by DOC as important applications made by SEZ units and Developers to Development Commissioner’s office and DOC for various Approvals/intimations/reporting. DOC had requested NDML to develop and deploy online submission process for the same.
