CKYCR, in its communication no. CKYC/2020/1 1 dated January 04, 2021 has specified that since CKYCR is fully operational for individual clients, it has been decided to extend CKYCR to Legal Entities (LE) as well. Accordingly, RIs shall upload the KYC records of LE accounts opened on or after April 01, 2021 on to CKYCR in terms of Rule 9 (1A) of the Prevention of Money Laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules, 2005.
Mutual Funds invest in certain debt instruments with special features viz. subordination to equity (absorbs losses before equity capital) and /or convertible to equity upon trigger of a pre-specified event for loss absorption. Additional Tier I bonds and Tier 2 bonds issued under Basel III framework are some instruments which may have above referred special features. The debt instruments having such special features as referred above, which otherwise are Non-Convertible Debentures, may be treated as debt instruments until converted to equity.
The exchanges with commodity derivatives segment shall not allow execution of trades without uploading of the UCC details by the members of the exchange. For this purpose, members shall collect after verifying the authenticity and maintain in their back office the copies of Permanent Account Number (PAN) issued by the Income Tax (IT) Department, for all their clients.
It has been decided the provide a format for Legal Title Report. This format is Annexed as Format A and the applicant should upload this format at the place of Legal Title Report in the application for registration of the project.
Mutual Funds including their passive investment schemes like Index Funds, Exchange Traded Funds etc. shall be required to cast votes compulsorily in respect of the following resolutions:
Under section 10 of Vivad se Vishwas, it is hereby clarified that where designated authority has passed orders under section 5(1) & (2) of Vivad se Vishwas, the Assessing Officer shall pass consequential order.
The proposals relating to amendments to MF Regulations have been notified vide Gazette notification no. SEBI/LAD-NRO/GN/2021/08 dated February 04, 2021. These amendments to MF Regulations shall come into force on 30th day from the date of their publication in the Official Gazette. Copy of the same is enclosed for reference. C. With respect to proposals relating to modifications in various circulars issued under MF Regulations, it has been decided to implement the following:
To facilitate development of the bullion market in India, generate interest in trading & hedging activities, and serve as a precursor to International Bullion Exchange(IBE), an enabling framework for Banking Units in IFSC to operate Unallocated Accounts has been notified.
OECD as well as most of the countries have clarified that in view of the provisions of the domestic income tax law read with the DTAAs, there does not appear a possibility of the double taxation of the income for FY 2020-21, As explained above, the possibility of double taxation does not exist as per the provisions of the Income-tax Act, 1961 read with the DTAAs.
Pursuant to the report of the Committee on Fair Market Conduct (‘Committee’), set up inter-alia to recommend appropriate Institutional Mechanism to ensure accountability of the management / designated persons in case of negligence / failure, necessary changes have been carried out in SEBI (Prohibition of Insider Trading) Regulations, 2015 (herein after referred as ‘PIT Regulations’).
