Circular No. 09/2015-Cus Dated the 31st March, 2015 Hon’ble Finance Minister in the Budget, 2014 made an announcement to implement ‘Indian Customs Single Window Project’ to facilitate trade. This project envisages that the importers and exporters would electronically lodge their Customs clearance documents at a single point only with the Customs.
In exercise of the powers conferred upon me by first proviso to sub-rule (3) of Rule 4 of Central Sales Tax (Delhi) Rules, 2005 I, Sanjeev Khirwar, Commissioner, Value Added Tax, do hereby allow to file Form 9 for the year 2013-14, prescribed under the said Rules upto 30th June, 2015.
Stakeholders have sought clarifications as to whether amounts received by private companies from their members, directors or their relatives prior to 1st April, 2014 shall be considered as deposits under the Companies Act, 2013 as such amounts were not treated as ‘deposits’ under section 58A of the Companies Act, 1956 and rules made thereunder.
The Reserve Bank of India has issued instructions vide RBI/2014-15/515 dated March 25, 2015 wherein it has been decided that all agency banks shall keep the counters of their designated branches conducting government business open for full day on March 30, 2015, and till 8.00 p.m. on March 31, 2015. All electronic transactions would, however, continue till midnight of March 31, 2015.
CIRCULAR No. 4/2015,A number of representations have been received by the Board stating that the purpose of introduction of Explanation 5 was to clarify the legislative intent regarding the taxation of income accruing or arising through transfer of a capital asset situate in India. Apprehensions have been expressed about the applicability of the Explanation to the transactions not resulting in any transfer, directly or indirectly of assets situated in India.
SEBI has been issuing circulars regularly giving the list of companies which have established connectivity with both the Depositories and have become eligible for shifting from TFTS to Normal Rolling Settlement.
In the event of a developer submitting application for administrative relief along with proof of payment of compounding fee and taxes with returns for the un-registered period, the order of granting the administrative relief to be passed by the concerned Joint Commissioner within two days without calling the developers for hearing.
In this regard, Board has received representations that imports of steel products are being allowed without compliance of mandatory Indian Standards stipulated i.e. IS:2062, IS:2002, IS: 2041, IS: 277 and IS: 1786 in the Steel and Steel Products (Quality Control) Second Order, 2012.
2.. In view of difficulties reported vide above referred letter, in the processing of returns in AST of foreign technicians filed by representative assessees, the CBDT has approved ‘Online TMS(category 2)’ for processing of such returns. Therefore, an online ‘Online TMS(category 2)’ functionality has been provided in ITD-AST application under AST TMS Online TMS – Category 2.
RBI/2014-15/495 A.P.(DIR Series) Circular No.83 Dated- March 11, 2015 To All Category – I Authorised Dealer Banks Madam / Sir, Acquisition/transfer of immovable property – Prohibition on citizens of certain countries Attention of Authorised Dealers in Foreign Exchange is invited to Regulation 7 of Foreign Exchange Management (Acquisition and Transfer of immovable property in India) […]
