It has been brought to the notice of the Board that wireless microphone sets/systems consisting of one or more wireless microphones and a wireless receiver are not being uniformly classified under Customs Tariff Act, 1975.
As you are aware that a return furnished by a person required under section 26 of Delhi Value Added Tax Act, 2004 is treated as self-assessed as per provisions of section 31 of the said Act. This was a major departure from the erstwhile Delhi Sales Tax Act, 1975, repealed by the aforesaid Act. Under erstwhile Delhi Sales Tax Act, all cases used to be assessed mandatorily to find out from the returns filed or otherwise, whether tax has been paid properly or not.
Kind reference is invited to minutes of the meeting taken by Chairman, CBEC, on 19.12.2015 of Principal Commissioners/ Commissioners of major airports and other officers issued under F. No. 520/43/2015-Cus VI dated 23.12.2015. It was decided in the said meeting that the Customs Declaration form which is prescribed for the domestic passengers travelling along with international passengers in the international flight flying in its domestic leg would be dispensed herewith.
It has been brought to notice of the Board that revised guidelines issued by RBI has not prescribed any restriction on denomination of Indian currency, carried by an Indian traveller or Captain of a Ship. In the light of the revised RBI guidelines, Board has decided to withdraw the restriction on denomination of Indian currency imposed vide earlier Circular No. 51/1999 dated 12.08.1999.
A consortium of contractors is often formed to implement large infrastructure projects, particularly in Engineering, Procurement and Construction (‘EPC’) contracts and Turnkey Projects. The tax authorities, in many cases have taken a position that such a consortium constituted an Association of Persons (‘AOP’) i.e. a separate entity for charging tax.
Government of India vide amendment Notification No. 9/2015-2020 dated June 4, 2015, has notified that the Status Holders shall be entitled to export freely exportable items on free of cost basis for export promotion subject to an annual limit of Rs 10 lakh or 2% of average annual export realization during preceding three licensing years whichever is lower. AD Category – I banks may, therefore, consider requests from Status Holder exporters for grant of Export Declaration Form (EDF) waiver, for export of goods free of cost based on the revised norm.
Over the years, the courts have laid down different parameters to distinguish the shares held as investments from the shares held as stock-in-trade. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (‘CBDT) has also, through Instruction No. 1827, dated August 31, 1989 and Circular No.4 of 2007 dated June 15, 2007, summarized the said principles for guidance of the field formations .
I, S.S. Yadav, Commissioner, Value Added Tax, do hereby extend the last date of filing of online return in Form 9 for the year 2014-15, prescribed under Rule 4 of Central Sales Tax (Delhi) Rules, 2005 to 31/03/2016.
Law Related to Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) on payments by television channels and publishing houses to advertisement companies for procuring or canvassing for advertisements.
Law Relating to Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) on payments by broadcasters or television channels to production houses for production of content or programme for telecasting.
