Income Tax : Taxpayers must file Form 33 to claim SEZ deduction on profits. Proper reporting of reserve utilisation and asset purchase is essen...
CA, CS, CMA : Explains the Budget 2026 proposal allowing SEZ units to sell to DTA units at reduced duty and how it simplifies approvals while lo...
Corporate Law : SEZ clearances to the DTA attract customs duty on full value, including domestic addition. The takeaway is SEZs are disadvantaged ...
Goods and Services Tax : This explains why non-refundable tender fees qualify as taxable consideration under GST. It clarifies that access to a tender proc...
Goods and Services Tax : Learn how to file your GSTR-9 annual return, including details of supplies, ITC, taxes paid, and adjustments for FY 2024-25....
Corporate Law : India's government amends SEZ rules, reducing land requirements and easing norms to boost semiconductor and electronics component ...
Corporate Law : Learn about SEZ provisions for IFSC units, mandatory approvals, and the role of IFSCA Administrator under SEZ Act for unified regu...
Goods and Services Tax : GST portal updates, geocoding of principal place of business, user ID generation, registration cancellation, AATO enablement, annu...
Corporate Law : The Special Economic Zones Act will be replaced with a new legislation that will enable the states to become partners in Developme...
Income Tax : Ministry of Commerce & Industry 378 SEZs are presently notified, out of which 265 are operational Posted On: 10 MAR 2021 The S...
Service Tax : CESTAT Bangalore held that services rendered by a sub-contractor for authorized operations within an SEZ are eligible for exemptio...
Service Tax : The tribunal remanded the case after finding insufficient evidence to prove that refund and Cenvat credit were not claimed on the ...
Service Tax : The case addressed whether services like rent-a-cab, catering, and business support qualify as input services for SEZ refund claim...
Custom Duty : The Tribunal held that exemption cannot be denied based on a re-export condition imposed through a DGH certificate when such a req...
Service Tax : The issue involved denial of service tax refund on employee insurance services in an SEZ unit. The Tribunal held that such insuran...
Custom Duty : The notification grants customs duty relief to SEZ units clearing goods to DTA, provided production began before 31 March 2025. It...
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...
The Department of Commerce under SEZ Division issued Circular vide No. K-43022/7/2020-SEZ dated June 29, 2021 for extension in the last date of filing QPRs/APRs by SEZ units/EOUs/Developers upto December 31, 2021 No. K-43022/7/2020-SEZ Government of India Ministry of Commerce & Industry Department of Commerce SEZ Division Udyog Bhavan New Delhi Dated: 29th June, 2021 […]
Ministry of Commerce and Industries notifies relaxations in Pending compliances, expiry of validity of LoAs, approvals or permissions till 30.06.2021. In view of the prevailing situation of the COVID-19 pandemic and partial lock-down imposed by the State Governments, most government offices are either closed or are functioning with skeletal staff. In order to facilitate the […]
DCs may consider the requests from the industry and approve the extension of WFH facility in a liberal manner till such time when National Disaster Management Authority or State Government continues to issue orders governing this pandemic management.
it is decided that the ‘Work From Home” permission in terms of Rule 43 of SEZ Rule 2006 is extended till 30.06.2021. A review of the same will be taken thereafter for further decision in the matter.
This article seeks to highlight certain key differences between the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) units, Export Oriented Units (EOU) and Domestic Tariff Area (DTA) units[1] in terms of their various benefits and compliances from an indirect tax point of view. Subject SEZ Unit EOU Unit DTA Unit Area of operations / Setting Up Can be […]
Ministry of Commerce & Industry 378 SEZs are presently notified, out of which 265 are operational Posted On: 10 MAR 2021 The Special Economic Zones (SEZs) policy was launched in April, 2000. The Special Economic Zones Act, 2005, was passed by Parliament in May, 2005 which received Presidential assent on the 23rd of June, 2005. The […]
One time waiver of Custom Duty as well as inspection requirement in case of de-bonding of IT/ ITeS units in SEZs and exemption on filing of BOE for goods sold by IT/ITeS SEZ unit which were initially procured on payment of duty and not used for authorised operations.
DCIT Vs DLF Assets Pvt Ltd. (ITAT Delhi) The assessee is without doubt a Developer of a SEZ, having been in fact allowed deduction u/s.80-IAB on it’s other income/s, as from service agreements, chargeable u/s. 28. That the said income is assessable as business income, and only rightly so, inasmuch as the source thereof is […]
The Hon’ble High Court concluded that order passed by JCCT Appeals cannot be said erroneous. Also concluded that the position adopted by ADC is not in line with KVAT Laws where the order passed by ADC was based on assumption that the benefit of refund of tax paid on purchase of Inputs can be granted only in respect of manufacture and processing of goods which is not at all prescribed under the law. Accordingly, there is no justification on the part of ADC in invoking revisional power u/s 64 (1) of the KVAT Act.
SEZ Online System has been sharing the details of supplies made by SEZ Units to DTA Units under Bill of Entry with GSTN through ICEGATE since July 2017. ICEGATE has completed its arrangements with GSTN to auto-populate the same in GSTR of DTA Buyer (Importer) for BoE information shared by SEZ Online System.
