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.
CIRCULAR NO. 16/2015-Customs, Dated: May 19, 2015 Requests have been received from the UN World Food Program (UNWFP), Government of Bangladesh and Government of Sri Lanka for facilitating transit movement of relief supplies to Nepal for the people affected by the earthquake. Relief supplies are also expected from other countries and international relief organizations.
CIRCULAR NO. 15/2015-Customs., Dated: May 18, 2015 As per the extant provisions, an exporter is required to submit the SDF form along with Shipping Bills for export of goods. RBI has recently dispensed with the SDF in case of exports taking place through the EDI ports
CIRCULAR NO.10 of 2015-16 I, Sanjeev Khirwar, Commissioner, Value Added Tax, do hereby 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 22/05/2015
Please refer to para 5 (A) of our circular UBD.BPD.(PCB).Cir. No.53/13.05.000/2013-14 dated March 28, 2014 wherein it was stipulated that if the sale is for a value higher than the Net Book Value (NBV), the excess provision will not be reversed, but will be utilised to meet the shortfall/loss on account of sale of other financial assets.
Existing provision: Schedule I, appended to the PT Act provides for rates of tax for different classes of persons. Entry 1 in this Schedule contains slab-wise rates of tax, applicable to salary and wage earners. Entry 1 in Schedule I was amended last year w.e.f. 1St July 2014 to increase the exemption limit for salary/wage earners to rupees 7,500 per month.
Circular No. 8/2015 The CBDT vide Instruction No. 4 of 2014 dated 7th April, 2014, inter-alia, prescribed Standard Operating Procedure for Verification and Correction of Demand available or uploaded by AOs in CPC Demand Portal. Further a facility has been made available to taxpayers on the E-filing website (www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in) to provide online responses to such demands.
In order to facilitate the reduction of time involved in delivering the shares to the buying broker, in case of default by selling broker, it has been decided to provide flexibility to Clearing Corporations to decide the time for conducting the settlement of Auction session on or before T+3 day.
