CIRCULAR NO 09/2015 In supersession of all earlier Instructions/Circulars/Guidelines issued by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (the Board) from time to time to deal with the applications for condonation of delay in filing returns claiming refund and returns claiming carry forward of loss and set-off thereof under section 119(2)(b) of the Income-tax Act (the Act), the present Circular is being issued containing comprehensive guidelines on the conditions for condonation and the procedure to be followed for deciding such matters.
CIRCULAR NO. 18/2015-Custom, Dated: June 09, 2015 Reference is invited to Notification No 60/2015-Customs (N.T.), dated 04.06.2015 whereby the power to appoint common adjudicating authority in cases investigated by DRI upto the level of Commissioner of Customs have been delegated to Principal Director General of Directorate of Revenue Intelligence in terms of section 152 of the Customs Act, 1962.
In suppression of this Department’s Circular Nos. 18, 20, 22, 24 & 27 of 2014-15, issued on the above mentioned subject, the Competent Authority is pleased to designate every Ward in-Charge, who is Assistant Commissioner/VATO, as the authorised Special
CIRCULAR No. CIR/MRD/DP/10/2015 Date- June 05, 2015 In order to ensure centralised record of all securities, including both physical and dematerialised shares, issued by the company and its reconciliation thereof, it has been decided that the Depositories shall create and maintain a database of distinctive numbers (DN) of equity shares of listed companies with details of DN in respect of all physical shares and overall DN range for dematerialised shares.
Circular No. 184/3/2015-ST Dated the 3rd June, 2015 It is further clarified that exemption from service tax still continues to services provided in relation to serving of food or beverages by a restaurant, eating joint or a mess, other than those having the facility of air-conditioning or central air-heating in any part of the establishment, at any time during the year.
Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS) for resident individuals- increase in the limit from USD 125,000 to USD 250,000 and rationalisation of current account transactions. Remittance facilities for persons other than individuals
In terms of Board’s letter of even no. dated 26.06.2012 service tax of 3.708% is levied on the total fare. As per General Budget 2015-16 announcement, the ‘Education Cess’ and ‘Secondary & Higher Education Cess’ shall be subsumed in the new service tax rate and service tax rate is proposed to be increased from 12% plus Education Cesses to 14%. Accordingly, it is proposed to modify para 3 of Board’s letter of even no. dated 26.06.2012 as under:
Circular no. 17/2015 – Customs, Dated 26th May 2015 The Central Government had announced its intent to permit the trading of rough diamonds in India by leading diamond mining companies of the world by creating a ‘Special Notified Zone’. For this purpose, Dept. of Commerce / GJEPC have sought a regulatory framework under the Customs Act.
CIRCULAR NO.11 of 2015-16 Delhi VAT Department has extend the last date of filing of online/hard copy of fourth quarter return for the year 2014-15, in Form DVAT-16, DVAT-17 and DVAT-48 along with required annexures /enclosures to 29/05/2015.
The Trade Circular 5T of 2015 was issued to explain the procedure in detail for new registration under The Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 and The Central Sales Tax Act, 1956.
