Sale of natural gas is liable to VAT @ 13.5% [Sch. Entry B-15]. However, with effect from 24th August 2017, natural gas sold to a manufacturer, certified by the Joint Commissioner of Sales Tax became liable to a lower rate of 3%, by virtue of a newly inserted schedule entry B-16 [Notfn. at reference 1], Benefit of this lower rate of 3% is available only if the purchasing manufacturing dealer is certified by the Joint Commissioner of Sales Tax in Proforma ‘A’.
Once a Shipping Bill has been filed, Customs officers will be able to access the uploaded electronic versions of supporting documents while viewing or assessing the Shipping Bill on ICES. During assessment, ICES provides for a query to be raised in order to call for additional documents or information.
It has been brought to the notice of SEBI that RTAs are seeking various documents for effecting transfer of securities and the documents sought vary across RTAs. SEBI has also received representations, highlighting difficulties faced by transferees in providing these documents.
Minimum average maturity: Reduce the minimum average maturity requirement for ECBs in the infrastructure space raised by eligible borrowers under paragraph 2.4.2 (vi) of the aforesaid Master Direction from 5 years, as stipulated under paragraph 2.4.1(iv), to 3 years; and
It has now been decided to allow banks to provide partial credit enhancement (PCE) to bonds issued by the systemically important non-deposit taking non-banking financial companies (NBFC-ND-SIs) registered with the Reserve Bank of India and Housing Finance Companies (HFCs) registered with National Housing Bank, subject to the following conditions:
Procedure for a Pilot on Transhipment of Export Cargo from Bangladesh to third countries through Land Customs Stations (LCSs) to Kolkata Port / Airport, in containers or closed bodied trucks – Reg. Circular 42/2018-Customs F.No. 550/02/2018-LC Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs North Block, New […]
From January 01, 2019, the UPI mechanism for retail individual investors through intermediaries will be made effective along with the existing process and existing timeline of T+6 days. The same will continue, for a period of 3 months or floating of 5 main board public issues, whichever is later.
The department has received representations from trade, stating difficulties in obtaining e-CST declarations/certiticates for period 2016-17 due to incorrect entries filed by dealer while filing annual returns u/s 20(4)(b) of MVAT Act, 2002.The present e-CST module in MAHAGST portal is modified to address above mentioned issue
CBIC has decided to extend the date of implementation of Electronic sealing for Deposit in and removal of goods from Customs bonded Warehouses to 01st January, 2019 in order to enable establishment of infrastructure and procurement of seals by warehouse owners.
The functionality of blocking and unblocking Input Tax Credit is an important tool for safeguarding the Government revenue particularly in cases of fraudulent activities by the taxpayers. So the jurisdictional officers are hereby directed to use this functionality for blocking/unblocking Input Tax Credit under the following situations:-
