Circular No. 165/16/2012 -ST Service specific Accounting Codes restored; 120 services labeled with codes unlike to one code for negative list. – Negative List based comprehensive approach to taxation of services came into effect from the first day of July, 2012. Accounting code for the purpose of payment of service tax under the Negative List approach [All Taxable Services – 00441089] was prescribed vide Circular 161/12/2012, dated 6th July, 2012.
Attention of Authorised Dealer Category-I (AD Category-I) banks is invited to A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 40 dated November 01, 2011 enhancing the period of realization and repatriation to India of the amount representing the full export value of goods or software exported, from six months to twelve months from the date of export. This relaxation was available up to September 30, 2012.
SEBI vide Circular No. SEBI/DNPD/Cir-33/2007, dated December 27, 2007 had permitted Stock Exchanges to introduce mini derivative contract on Index (Sensex and Nifty) with a minimum contract size of INR 1 lakh.
The facility of remittance of refund through ECS will be optional to all the dealers in Greater Mumbai. However, in future the department proposes to make ECS refund scheme mandatory. Therefore, all the dealers who do not have Bank account in an ECS enabled Bank are advised to open an account in an ECS enabled Bank.
Please find enclosed a copy of the gazette notification No. LAD-NRO/GN/2012- 13/17/21502 dated September 26, 2012 pertaining to Securities and Exchange Board of India (Mutual Funds) (Second Amendment) Regulations, 2012, for your information and implementation.
Attention is invited to Board’s Circular No. 37/2011- Cus., dated 23.08.2011 which gives details on the ‘Authorized Economic Operator’ (AEO) Programme . The said Circular contains the salient features of the AEO Programme including the processing, validations and certification of AEOs. It also indicated Board’s decision to initially begin a pilot before finalizing the AEO Programme for a full scale roll out. Accordingly applications were invited for participation in the Pilot AEO Programme, which has since been completed.
Mutual funds participating in CDS transactions, as users, shall be required to comply with the guidelines issued by RBI, vide notification no. IDMD.PCD.No.5053/14.03.04/2010-11 dated May 23, 2011 and subsequent guidelines issued by RBI and SEBI from time to time.
This office is in receipt of queries with regards to the admissibility of submission of returns, application for refund in Form-501, Audit Report in Form-704 or like documents and payment of amount towards VAT on the next working day immediately following due date which falls on Sunday or Public Holiday.
Circular No. F.1-AD (E-BENCH)/AT/2012 It is directed that appeals and applications fixed before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Nagpur Bench will be heard through Video Conferencing by the Members of the ITAT sitting at ITAT, Mumbai.
On a review of the extant ECB policy, it has been decided to include SIDBI as an eligible borrower for availing of ECB for on-lending to MSME sector, as defined under the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development (MSMED) Act, 2006, subject to the following terms and conditions:-
