Circular No.189/8/2015-Service Tax It has come to the notice of the Board that certain field formations have taken a view that all activities incidental to seed testing are leviable to service tax and only the activity in so far it relates to actual testing has been exempted in the Negative List.
Pursuant to Section 131 of the Finance Act, 2015 and Central Government Notification O. 2362 (E) dated August 28, 2015, all recognized associations (commodity derivatives exchanges) under the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952 (‘FCRA) are deemed to be recognized stock exchanges under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 (‘SCRA’) with effect from September 28, 2015
Under the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, every dealer is required to pay tax within the prescribed time. If payment of such tax is delayed, then interest under Section 30 of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 is attracted. The dealer is liable to pay interest as per the rate prescribed in Rule 88(1) of Maharashtra Value Added Tax Rules, 2005.
CIRCULAR NO. 30 OF 2015-16 The department had started issuing central statutory forms online without any manual intervention since the middle of year 2012. Central statutory forms/declarations are mainly required by the dealers for making inter-state purchases at concessional rate or for inward stock transfer. The details of such inward supplies are recorded by dealers in Annexure 2A filed along with return. The system is functioning smoothly as all facilities have been provided on the portal for downloading the forms according to the need of the buyers.
CIRCULAR No. CIR/CDMRD/DEICE/01/2015, Pursuant to Section 131 of the Finance Act, 2015 and Central Government notification F.No. 1/9/SM/2015 dated August 28, 2015, all recognized associations under the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952 are deemed to be recognized stock exchanges under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 with effect from September 28, 2015. This circular applies to National Commodity Derivatives Exchanges (Exchanges) as defined in the Securities Contracts (Regulation) (Stock Exchanges and Clearing Corporations) (Amendment) Regulations, 2015.
CIRCULAR NO.29 of 2015-16 In partial modification to this department’s Circular No. 27 of 2015-16 on the -subject cited above and 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 filing of online/hard copy of second quarter return for the year 2015-16, in Form DVAT-16, DVAT-17 and DVAT-48 along with required annexure/enclosures to 20/11/2015.
pursuant to Section 131 of the Finance Act, 2015 and Central Government notification F.No. 1/9/SM/2015 dated August 28, 2015, all recognized associations under the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952 are deemed to be recognized stock exchanges under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 with effect from September 28, 2015. This circular applies to National Commodity Derivatives Exchanges as defined in the Securities Contracts (Regulation) (Stock Exchanges and Clearing Corporations) (Amendment) Regulations, 2015
Circular No. 29/2015-Customs The revised All Industry Rates (AIR) of Duty Drawback has been notified vide Notification No. 110/2015-Customs (N.T.), dated 16.11.2015 which comes into force on 23.11.2015. These AIRs broadly take into account certain broad average parameters including, inter alia, prevailing prices of inputs, input output norms, share of imports in input consumption, the rates of central excise and customs duties, the factoring of incidence of service tax paid on taxable services which are used as input services in the manufacturing or processing of export goods, factoring incidence of duty on HSD/furnace oil, value of export goods, etc.
Circular No. 188/7/2015-ST Accounting codes have also been allotted by the Office of the Controller General of Accounts for the new Minor Head 506-Swachh Bharat Cess and new Sub-heads as under:
Ministry of Finance ‘vide their Notification Nos. 21 & 22/2015-Service Tax dated 06-11- 2015 have decided that Swachh Bharat Cess @ 0.5% shall be levied on the value of all taxable services w.e.f. 15-11-20-15. Service tax of 14% and Swachh Bharat Cess of 0.5 % are chargeable on 30% of total passenger fare equivalent to 4.35% of the total fare in first class and all AC classes.”