Amendment to Ch IX of the Customs Act, 1962 – Insertion of Section 58A – clarification regarding transitional provisions relating to Duty Free Shops/Ship stores/Airline Stores/Diplomatic Stores – reg.
Please refer to the changes made in the Finance Act, 2016 to shift towards record based control with respect to Bonded Warehouses. It is proposed that each warehouse be allotted a unique warehouse code so that importers can declare the warehouse in which goods shall be deposited, at the into-bond bill of entry stage.
In the case of Delhi Press Patra Prakashan Ltd., Delhi HC held that printing and publishing activity is a manufacturing activity and therefore, assessee is eligible for grant of additional depreciation u/s 32(1)(iia). CBDT accepts this position, Henceforth, appeals may not be filed on this ground by officers of the Department and those already filed, in Courts/Tribunals may be withdrawn / not pressed upon.
AD Cat- I banks were required to submit statement E on total remittances received every quarter. Authorised Dealer Category – I (AD Cat – I) banks are now advised to report the above mentioned statement in eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) system from the quarter ending June 2016.
Authorised Persons, who are Indian Agents under Money Transfer Service Scheme were required to submit quarterly statement of the quantum of remittances received in the prescribed format.
On a review, it has been decided to change the fraud monitoring and reporting mechanism at the Regional Offices and Central Fraud Monitoring Cell (CFMC) of the RBI. Accordingly, henceforth:
It is decided that filling of all the fields in Form No.60 shall be considered to be mandatory in respect of transactions entered on or after 1.04.2016. It is also decided that online reporting of declarations in Form No. 61 for quarter ending March, 2016 may be done along with report for quarter ending September, 2016.
Service Tax liability for services provided by an arbitral tribunal (including the individual arbitrators of the tribunal) shall be on the service recipient if it is a business entity located in the taxable territory with a turnover exceeding rupees ten lakh in the preceding financial year.
Circular, nominating trade representatives in the Sub-Committee of the High level Committee, on the issue of imposition of Central Excise duty on articles of jewellery in the Union budget 2016-17.
Department of Trade and Taxes has developed a mobile application DVATMsewa to provide various services to traders. One of the services to be provided through the new App is registration of dealers under the DVAT Act, 2004 and CST Act, 1956. The following procedure is hereby prescribed to deal with requests for registration of dealers received through DVATMsewa App without verification of business premises by VAT Inspector and to complete the registration process almost instantaneously:-
