CIRCULAR NO-07/2011, The Board had issued Circular No.7/2007 and 23.10.2007 laying down the procedure for refund of tax deducted at source under section 195 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 to the person deducting tax at source from the payment to a non-resident.
Schedule VI, Form A, para (16) of SEBI (Issue of Capital and Disclosure Requirements) Regulations, 2009 provides that ‘Price Information of Past Issues handled by Merchant Bankers (who are responsible for pricing this issue)’ should be enclosed along-with Due Diligence certificate submitted to the Board. The format for disclosure of Price Information of Past Issues handled by Merchant Bankers is given at Annexure.
SEBI has reviewed the structure, design, format, contents and order of information of Application-Cum-Bidding-Form to make it investor friendly and also to ensure uniformity in bidding and accuracy. The form has been standardized and it has been decided that henceforth there would only be a single form for ASBA and Non-ASBA applicants. It has also been decided that the Application-Cum-Bidding Form (accompanied with abridged prospectus) would be printed in a booklet form of A4 size paper.
Considering the specific needs of the infrastructure sector, the existing ECB policy has been reviewed in consultation with the Government of India and it has been decided to allow Indian companies which are in the infrastructure sector, where “infrastructure” is as defined under the extant guidelines on External Commercial Borrowings (ECB), to avail of ECBs in Renminbi (RMB), under the approval route, subject to an annual cap of USD one billion pending further review.
To benefit eligible borrowers, it has been decided, in consultation with the Government of India, to consider the ECB proposals from foreign equity holders (direct/indirect) and group companies under the approval route as under:- (i) Service sector units, in addition to those in hotels, hospitals and software, could also be considered as eligible borrowers if the loan is obtained from foreign equity holders. This would facilitate borrowing by training institutions, R &D, miscellaneous service companies, etc;
On a review, it has been decided by RBI , to further liberalise the ECB policy in respect of the infrastructure sector.Direct foreign equity holder (holding minimum 25 per cent of the paid-up capital) and indirect foreign equity holder holding atleast 51% of the paid-up capital, will be permitted to provide credit enhancement for the domestic debt raised by Indian companies engaged exclusively in the development of infrastructure and by Infrastructure Finance Companies (IFCs) through issue of capital market instruments. No prior approval will be required from the Reserve Bank for providing such credit enhancements.
UBD.BPD.(SCB)Cir No. 1/09.18.300/2011-12 – As announced in the Monetary Policy Statement 2011-12, [para 102 – appended], it has been decided to permit scheduled UCBs satisfying certain criteria to provide internet banking facility to their customers. Accordingly, scheduled UCBs having minimum networth of Rs. 100 crore, CRAR of at least 10%, net NPA less than 5% and have earned net profit continuously in the last three financial years are eligible to offer internet banking facility to their customers.
The IRDA, vide Circular, dated 10-2-2011, had issued guidelines on portability of health insurance policies which was to be introduced from 1-7-2011. Subsequently, on 24-6-2011, it was felt necessary to put in place a system to enable collection of data on the history of health insurance and monitoring the transfer of records of the porting policyholder. In that context, it was decided that the implementation of portability of health insurance policies would be mandated to commence no later than 1-10-2011. In continuation of the above guidelines, the detailed procedure on health insurance portability shall be as set out in these guidelines.
Circular No. 44 /2011- Customs Consequent to the judgement of Hon’ble Supreme Court dated 18.02.2011, in Civil Appeals Nos. 4294-4295 of 2002 and Nos. 4603-4604 of 2005 (commonly referred to as Sayed Ali case), Board issued an Instruction F.No.437/143/2009-Cus.IV(pt) dated 15.04.2011 directing the field formations to examine pending Show Cause Notices and wherever these are not hit by time limitation to get these issued afresh by the jurisdictional Commissionerates.
On a review of the extant ECB policy, it has been decided, in consultation with the Government of India, to further rationalise and liberalize the ECB guidelines as under:- (i) Enhancement of ECB limit under the automatic route (a) Eligible borrowers in real sector-industrial sector-infrastructure sector can avail of ECB up to USD 750 million or equivalent per financial year under the automatic route as against the present limit of USD 500 million or equivalent per financial year.
