Attention of banks maintaining Non-Resident Deposit (NRD) Accounts is invited to A. P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 55 dated May 09, 2007, in terms of which the data on Non-Resident Deposits are required to be submitted in soft copy in the form of Stat 5 and Stat 8 Returns in Microsoft Excel format, both through email and a hard copy to the Director, Reserve Bank of India, Department of Statistics and Information Management (DSIM), Central Office, Balance of Payments Statistics Division, C-9/8, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Bandra (East), Mumbai – 400 051.
Mouse Pads are generally flat products of different shapes and consist of different materials or combinations of materials such as plastics, rubber, hard rubber, etc. The characteristics and properties of these materials of which Mouse Pads are made of do not make the product indispensible for the functioning of an ADP mouse. It is also apparent that an ADP mouse does not depend on the presence of a Mouse Pad in order to function or to carry out its specific activity. The ADP mouse could also be used and would also function without being placed on a Mouse Pad.
Under the extant regulations, the facility of cancellation and rebooking is not permitted for forward contracts, involving Rupee as one of the currencies, booked by residents to hedge current and capital account transactions. However, forward contract(s), booked by residents to hedge capital account transactions for tenor greater than one year, if cancelled with one AD Category I bank can be rebooked with another AD Category I bank, subject to the following conditions:
CIRCULAR NO. 163/14/2012-ST, Concerns have been expressed in various forums regarding the leviability of service tax on the remittance of foreign currency in India from overseas. 2. The matter has been examined and it is clarified that there is no service tax per se on the amount of foreign currency remitted to India from overseas. In the negative list regime, ‘service’ has been defined in clause (44) of section 65B of the Finance Act 1994, as amended, which excludes transaction in money. As the amount of remittance comprises money, the activity does not comprise a ‘service’ and thus not subjected to service tax.
It has been brought to our notice that some banks are insisting on opening of fresh accounts by customers when customers approach them for transferring their account from one branch of the bank to another branch of the same bank. In such cases, insisting on opening of a fresh account or subjecting the customers to the full KYC procedure again causes inconvenience to them resulting in poor customer service. Further, in case of banks that are CBS enabled, the KYC records of a customer could be accessed by any branch of the bank and hence it is not reasonable for such banks to subject the customer again to the full KYC procedure.
Circular No.161/12/2012 -ST Accounting Code for payment of service tax under the Negative List approach to taxation of services, with effect from the first day of July 2012 – regarding. Negative List based comprehensive approach to taxation of services came into effect from the first day of July, 2012. For payment of service tax under the new approach, a new Minor Head – ‘All taxable Services’ has been allotted under the Major Head 0044-Service Tax.
Circular No. 162/13 /2012 –ST Consequent to the changes introduced at the time of Budget 2012 in the Point of Taxation Rules, 2011, together with revision of the service tax rate from 10% to 12% and the subsequent changes that have been made effective from 01.07.2012, the following clarifications have been desired: (a) Point of taxation and the rate applicable in respect of continuous supply of services at the time of change in rates effective from 01.04.2012;
Vide Companies (Filing of documents and forms in Extensible Business Reporting Language) Rules, 2011 notified vide GSR No. 748E dated 5.10.2011, select class of companies are required to file their Balance Sheet and Profit & Loss Account and other documents as required u/s 220 of Companies Act , 1956 with the Registrar of Companies for the financial year ending on or after 31st March, 2011.
Circular No. 18/2012-Cus It has been decided by the Board that the vehicles which are in the nature of professional equipment, illustratively mentioned in para (4) of the said Circular, may also include Ambulance, Sewage Disposal Truck, Refuse Disposal Vehicle, that are pre-designed structurally and pre-fitted with relevant devices and mechanisms that make for their use for the intended purposes and enable a reasonable conclusion that they cannot be put to generalized or personal use; and Dumpers designed for off-highway use (as described in the Explanatory Notes to Chapter 87 of the Harmonized System of Nomenclature-HSN), for use by the service provider in his regular service business.
Circular No. 17/2012-Customs Attention is drawn to para 2 (e) of Circular No. 5/2010-Customs dated 16.03.2010, which reads – “ As regards the duty credit scrips issued under Chapter 3 of FTP, the verification of genuineness of scrips in terms of Para 3.11.3 of the HBP v.1 shall be done before allowing registration of such scrips. Further, the Commissioner may cause random verification of the shipping bills based on which the said duty credit scrip has been issued to ascertain the genuineness of such shipping bills. A quarterly report on the outcome of the said verification may be forwarded to the Board, which should include inter alia the details of the discrepancies noticed during the verification and the measures taken to redress such discrepancies. This procedure will be reviewed once online transmission of the duty credit scrips issued under Chapter 3 of FTP is operationalized
