Continuous Disclosure Requirements for Listed Entities – Regulation 30 of Securities and Exchange Board of India (Listing Obligations and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2015-In order to enable investors to make well-informed investment decisions, timely, adequate and accurate disclosure of information on an ongoing basis is essential.
Circular No. 15 of 2015 – Vide circular No. 13 of 2015 dated 6th July, 2015 CBDT provided clarifications to 32 queries related to Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets. Subsequently, further queries have been received from the public about the tax compliance provisions under Chapter VI of the Act. The Board has considered the same and the following clarifications are issued.-
Circular No. 22/2015-Customs Duty In order to facilitate genuine trade and to reduce dwell time, it is necessary to streamline the procedures at every stage of assessment till out of charge of goods is given by Proper Officer of Customs. Increasing number of queries and resultant delay in assessment process is a matter of concern.
It is clarified that the provisions of Para 5.10(d) of HBP 2015-20 Shall be applicable to third party exports made on or after 01.04.2015 (even in respect of exports made under EPCG authorisations issued prior to 01.04.2015). Third party exports which have been made prior to 01.04.2015 will be governed by the provisions of relevant policy/procedure).
ln continuation to General Circular No.08/2015 dated 12.06.2015 , the last date of filing of Form CRA-4 without any penalty/late fee is hereby extended upto 30th September, 2015.
CIRCULAR NO. 21 of 2015-16 Value Added Tax System of taxation of sale of goods envisages to deposit tax on value addition of the goods after availing set-off of the tax paid on earlier stage. It is a multipoint tax and tax invoice issued by the seller serves as the basic document for availing input tax credit.
CIRCULAR NO. 22 of 2015-16 it is decided that the Systems Branch shall remove checks only against those functional dealers who have filed the objections online and also filed a hard copy of the same before the OHA in the matters related to the objections pertaining to the tax period prior to 01/10/2011
India has joined the Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement (MCAA) on Automatic Exchange of Financial Account Information on June 3, 2015. In terms of the MCAA, all countries which are a signatory to the MCAA, are obliged to exchange a wide range of financial information after collecting the same from financial institutions in their country/jurisdiction.
With a view to promoting the ease of reporting of transactions under foreign direct investment, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI), under the aegis of the e-Biz project of the Government of India has enabled online filing of the Foreign Currency Transfer of Shares (FCTRS) returns for reporting transfer of shares, convertible debentures, partly paid shares and warrants from a person resident in India to a person resident outside India or vice versa.
The department has been able to detect numerous dealers, during recent years, who in terms of provisions of Section 40A of the DVAT Act, 2004 have entered into an , arrangement to defeat the purposes of the DVAT Act or any provision of the Act, by way of claiming refunds, on Input Tax Credit to which they are not entitled or by providing fictitious ITC
