The Service Provider of MCA-21 has brought to the notice of the Ministry that the letters of intimation issued in respect of 9522 cases for reservation of names (INC-1) allow the applicants to use reserved names within 60 days of date of such intimation. This is at variance with the implementation in the MCA-21. This is causing inconvenience to the stakeholders.
With respect to clause 3(d), joint investors shall mean where each of the investor contributes towards the AIF. With respect to clause 3(g), such investee company shall hold or propose to hold not less than one project, directly or indirectly.
Circular No. 12/2014-Income Tax Section 10AA of the Income-tax Act, 1961, inter-alia, provides for deduction in respect of the profits derived by a unit set up in SEZ from export of computer software or from providing any ITES services. The said deduction available to a new SEZ unit is subject to certain conditions including: i) it is not formed by the splitting up, or the reconstruction of a business already in existence; ii) it is not formed by the transfer to a new business, of machinery or plant previously used for any purpose.
Applicability of Section 188 to corporate restructuring, amalgamations etc. :- It is clarified that transactions arising out of Compromises, Arrangements and Amalgamations dealt with under specific provisions of the Companies Act, 1956/Companies Act, 2013, will not attract the requirements of section 188 of the Companies Act, 2013.
Partly paid equity shares and warrants issued by an Indian company in accordance with the provision of the Companies Act, 2013and the SEBI guidelines, as applicable, shall be eligible instruments for the purpose of FDI and foreign portfolio investment (FPI) by Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs)/Registered Foreign Portfolio Investors(RFPIs) subject to compliance with FDI and FPI schemes.
In continuation of this Ministry’s circular No. 02/2014 and 26/2014 dated 11.02.2014 and 27.06.2014 respectively, it is hereby directed that while allotting names to Companies/Limited Liability Partnerships, the Registrar of Companies concerned should exercise due care to ensure that the names are not in contravention of the provisions of the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950. To this end it is necessary that Registrars are fully familiar with the provisions of the said Act.
Circular No. 178/4/2014-ST- Dated- 11th July, 2014 Doubts have been raised regarding the manner and extent of the distribution of common input service credit in terms of amended rule 7 [especially rule 7(d)] of the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 (CCR). Rule 7 provides for the mechanism of distribution of common input service credit by the Input Service Distributor to its manufacturing units or to units providing output services.
In the Budget 2011-12, excise duty of 1% was imposed on chemical fertilizers falling under Chapter 31 of the Central Excise Tariff such as Urea, Di-ammonium Phosphate (DAP), Ammonium Sulphate, Single Super Phosphate (SSP), etc. and various grades of complex fertilizers.
In order to simplify procedures and with a view to ensure timely disposal of E-Forms in the office of Registrars of Companies and keeping in view the penal provisions for false declaration as contained in section 448 read with section 447, the following E-Forms with the conditions mentioned along with will be processed and taken on record using the Straight Through Process mode.
SEBI has vide circular no. CIR/MRD/DP/ 01 /2014 dated January 07, 2014 introduced guidelines to strengthen the supervisory and monitoring role of the depositories and their participants with respect to issuance and processing of Delivery Instruction Slips.
