Circular No.155/6/ 2012 – ST It has been brought to the attention of the Board that some airlines are collecting differential service tax on tickets issued before 1st April 2012 for journey after 1st April 2012, causing inconvenience to passengers. Representations have also been received in this regard. The position of law in the above respect is clear and is detailed below.
If the Indian company has extended a guarantee to a loan taken by non-resident entity (may be its subsidiary abroad), such guarantees are part of contingent foreign liabilities. In this case, under column1 of block 7, “Loan Guarantee” needs to be mentioned.
AD Category-I banks are advised that a further revision has taken place on March 7, 2012 and accordingly, the Rupee value of the Special Currency Basket has been fixed at Rs.70.965327 with effect from March 13, 2012.
CBDT Circular No. 01/2012 All deductors (including government deductors who deposit TDS in the Central Government Account through book entry) shall issue TDS certificate in Form No. 16A generated through TIN central system and which is downloaded from the TIN website with a unique TDS certificate number in respect of all sums deducted on or after the 1st day of April, 2012 under any of the provisions of Chapter-XVII-B other than section 192. In other words, the issuance of duty verified TDS certificate in Form No. 16A, by the deductor of any category shall henceforth by only through TIN Central System. The deductor shall therefore, download such certificate from the TIN Central System, verify the correctness of the contents mentioned therein and authenticate the correctness of the contents before issue of the said certificate.
To ensure greater flexibility in sending remittances, it has now also been decided to allow Authorised Dealers Category-II to open Nostro accounts subject to following terms and conditions: i) Only one Nostro account for each currency may be opened; ii) Balances in the account should be utilized only for the settlement of remittances sent for permissible purposes and not for the settlement in respect of forex prepaid cards; iii) No idle balance shall be maintained in the said account; and iv) They will be subject to reporting requirements as prescribed from time to time.
It has come to notice that orders received from Hon’ble President/Vice-President are not dispatch within a reasonable period. Some time even for two weeks or three weeks or for months together. It is directed that all order received from Hon’ble President/VicePresident and Hon’ble Members must be dispatched within 3 days from the date of receipt of the order from the Hon’ble Bench.
Attention of Authorised Dealer Category – I (AD Category – I) banks is invited to Para 4(v) of A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No.2 dated July 9, 2004, in terms of whichAD Category – I banks are required to submit to FED, CO, RBI a monthly statement regarding the number of transactions and value in USD million and Rupees in crores of gold imported by (i) Export Oriented Units (EOUs), (ii) Units in SEZ/EPZ, and (iii) Nominated Agencies/Banks.
An Indian party will now be allowed to open, hold and maintain Foreign Currency Account (FCA) abroad for the purpose of overseas direct investments subject to the following terms and conditions: The Indian party is eligible for overseas direct investments in terms of Regulation 6 (Regulation 7, if applicable) of Notification No. FEMA 120/RB-2004 dated July 7, 2004, as amended from time to time. The host country Regulations stipulate that the investments into the country is required to be routed through a designated account.
Attention of all Authorised Persons, who are authorised to issue foreign currency pre-paid cards to resident Indians visiting outside India, is invited to Para B(5) of the A. P. (DIR Series) Circular No. 46 dated June 14, 2005, in terms of which the use of such cards is limited to permissible current account transactions and subject to the prescribed limits under the Foreign Exchange Management (Current Account Transactions) Rules, 2000, as amended from time to time.
Circular No. 964/07/2012-CX Reference has been received from Trade seeking clarification regarding classification of structural parts/components of Boiler and admissibility of CENVAT credit on these parts/components to the buyers of the Boilers.
