Circular No. 1015/03/2016-CX References have been received in the Board from intended beneficiaries that there have been instances where refund applications filed beyond one year from purchase of vehicle, have been rejected as they were hit by limitation under Section 11B of the Central Excise Act, 1944. Reason for such delay has been claimed in some cases as delay in procuring certificate from the line Ministry as prescribed in the notification, confirming the said goods are capable of being used by the physically handicapped persons.
Circular No. 03/2016-Customs duty The Central Board of Excise and Customs has taken-up the task of implementing ‘Indian Customs Single Window Project’ to facilitate trade. This project envisages that the importers and exporters would electronically lodge their Customs clearance documents at a single point only with the Customs. The required permission, if any, from other regulatory agencies (such as Animal Quarantine, Plant Quarantine, Drug Controller, Textile Committee etc.) would be obtained online without the importer/exporter having to separately approach these agencies. T
Circular No. 1014/02/2016-CX Hon’ble High Court has held that duty under Central Excise Act, 1944 can be levied, if the article has come into existence as a result of production or manufacture. Articles which are not produced or manufactured cannot be subjected to levy of excise duty.
A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 40 Foreign Direct Investment –Reporting under FDI Scheme, Mandatory filing of form ARF, FCGPR and FCTRS on e-Biz platform and discontinuation of physical filing from February 8, 2016
CIRCULAR NO. 37 OF 2015-16 A considerable number of refund cases are lying pending with department and many representations are being received in this regard. In order to streamline the disposal of refund cases, at the first stage, it has been decided that all refunds pending upto the tax period ending 31st March, 2015 and having amount upto ₹ 10,000 in a tax period, would be processed expeditiously.
CDMRD/DMP/CIR/32/2016 Overall position limit for a particular commodity shall be restricted to numerical position limits as mandated from time to time. For the present, the numerical position limits as existing shall be continued. It is clarified that client level position limit equal to 5% of market wide open interest permitted earlier, is hereby discontinued.
The dealers who had uploaded the said Audit Report under subsection (1) of section 61 on or before the 21st January 2016 and submitted the physical copy of the acknowledgment on or before 1st February 2016 then in such cases penalty proceedings shall not be initiated.
Circular No. 36 of 2015-16 In exercise of the powers conferred under Rule 49A of the Delhi Value Added Tax Rules, 2005, I, S.S. Yadav, Commissioner, Value Added Tax, do hereby extend the last date of filling of online/hard copy of third quarter return for the year 2015-16, in Form DVAT-16, DVAT-17 and DVAT-48 along with required annexure/enclosures to 05.02.2016
Circular No. 35 of 2015-16 The facility of auto-downloading of the forms shall not be available to the dealer for the tax period in cases in which the ratio of sale to purchase, including stock transfer and local transactions, falls below 45%. The statutory forms in such cases shall be available for auto downloading on the basis of sale and purchase of next quarter.
Circular No. 2/2016-Customs Kind reference is invited to Boards Circular No. 13/2007- Customs dated 2nd March, 2007 on the subject cited above. Board has already issued instructions reiterating the provisions for import of Livestock/Livestock products to ensure that clearance of Livestock/Livestock products is done after proper quarantine check and issue of no objection certificate by Animal Quarantine Officer.
