The Honble Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister in Budget Speech delivered on 20th March 2013 made announcements to exempt, reduce or enhance the tax in respect of certain goods. To give effect to the Budget proposals, the Schedules A, B, C and D appended to Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 are amended with effect from 1st April 2013.
EBI has, vide circular dated August 13, 2012 providing for the “Manner of Dealing with Audit Reports filed by Listed companies”, mandated listed companies to submit either Form A (Unqualified/ Matter of Emphasis Report) or Form B (Qualified/ Subject
Consequent to the amendment in Section 129C(4) of the Customs Act 1962, Section 350(3) of the Central Excise Act 1944 and corresponding changes in provisions of the Finance Act 1994 by virtue of Section 86(7) thereof, the Single Member Jurisdiction stands enhanced to Rs. 50 Lacs.
This circular is being issued in exercise of powers conferred under Section 11 (1) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act, 1992 to protect the interests of investors in securities and to promote the development of, and to regulate the securities market
In order to further extend the benefits of SLB and to facilitate efficient use of margin collateral, a review of the SLB framework was undertaken in consultation with Secondary Market Advisory Committee (SMAC). Accordingly, it has been decided to modify the extant SLB framework as under:
The purpose of taking the information in Form DVAT-07 and Form DVAT-52 is to update the dealers’ data with the department. To maintain up to date and accurate data of the dealers in the department records, Registration Certificates of the dealers are required to be amended. The amendment process is to be initiated either on dealer’s initiative or suo-moto order passed on information received by the department.
In exercise of the powers under the Companies Act, the Registrar of Companies may obtain declaration/affidavits from subscribers/first directors first at the time of incorporation and from directors, subsequently whenever company changes its objects
With this amendment, the authorities competent to write-off the arrears of Central Excise and the Commissioner of Service Tax are also delegated powers to write-off the arrears of Service Tax as well. Consequently, the constitution of the Committees for examining the proposals for write-off of irrecoverable arrears and recommending deserving cases to the authority competent to order such write-off, also requires modification.
Benefits of deemed exports under para 8.2(f) are available only if supplies are under ICB, except for Mega Power Projects. For Mega Power projects it could be ICB or other than ICB, as given in para 3 above. Para 8.3(c)(i) and para 8.4 of FTP (table given in this para) clearly provide that if supplies are under ICB, then such supplies are exempted from payment of TED. If supplies are not under ICB, then such supplies are eligible for refund.
Attention is invited to Board’s Circular 18/2009- Cus dated 08.06.2009 which disallows direct movement of consignments from Gateway Port to CFS of another Customs Station. It is only in exceptional circumstances on account of congestion etc, the jurisdictional Commissioners are empowered to allow the movement of consignments from Gateway Port directly to a CFS of another Customs Station.
