The Directorate has received references from members of trade seeking clarification on eligibility of firms providing educational services to NRI students for benefits under the Services Exports from India Scheme (SEIS).
Online registration and online filing of the claims, by the eligible units for disbursal of budgetary support under Goods and Service Tax Regime, located in States of Jammu & Kashmir, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and North East including Sikkim.
Consequent to the introduction of GST, a need was felt to include recovery in cases under CGST and IGST Acts under the Reward Guidelines to ensure their parity with cases booked under the Customs Act, NDPS Act, Service Tax and Central Excise References were also received in the Board to treat officers of other Government agencies, who play a role in the detection of cases, at par with CBIC officers, irrespective of the fact whether seizure has been effected by these agencies or by officials of CBIC.
It has been decided to relax the additional fees payable to companies having registered office in the State of Kerala on e-forms AOC-4, AOC (CFS) AOC-4 XBRL and e- Form MGT-7 upto 31.12.2018, wherever additional fee is applicable.
It has been decided, in consultation with the Government of India, to liberalise ECB Policy and permit public sector Oil Marketing Companies (OMCs) to raise ECB for working capital purposes with minimum average maturity period of 3/5 years from all recognized lenders under the automatic route.
Customs has introduced Single Window Interface for facilitating Trade (SWIFT) as part of ease of doing business initiative to integrate Customs and other Participating Government Agencies (PGAs) for seamless processing of import and export clearances.
As per the amendments in Securities Contracts (Regulation) (Stock Exchanges and Clearing Corporations) Regulations, 2012 as notified on April 02, 2018 in the Gazette of India, there would be no separate category of ‘Commodity Derivatives Exchanges’ w.e.f. October 1, 2018.
References have been received regarding Circular 19/2018-Customs dated 18th June 2018 seeking a postponement in the date for mandatory RFID sealing in case of movement of goods under warehousing bond. The Board has decided to extend the date to 1st November, 2018 in order enable establishment of infrastructure and procurement of seals by warehouse owners.
This is bring to your notice on circular no. CSD-1/CPGRAMS/Pragati e-Samiksha/2016/12866 dated 31-10-2016 wherein given direction that all death case claims submitted by spouse/’nominee/legal heir of EFF member be invariably settled within a period of 7 days from dale of submission of claim form in concerned field office where the deceased members accounts are being maintained.
Circular No. 65/39/2018-DOR, dated 14.09.2018 lays down guidelines for deductions and deposits of TDS by the DDO under GST. Detailed forms have already been prescribed vide FORM GST REG- 07, FORM GSTR- 7.
