Establishment of Connectivity with both depositories NSDL and CDSL – Companies eligible for shifting from Trade for Trade Settlement (TFTS) to normal Rolling Settlement.
In order to simplify the procedure of change of name in individual Beneficial Owner’s (BO) account, it has been decided that an individual BO may be allowed to change his/ her name, subject to the submission of following documents at the time of change of name of the individual in the BO account.
Mounting pendency of appeals before CIT(A) and huge amounts disputed therein has been a matter of serious concern for the Department. The C&AG, Standing Committee on Finance, PAC have been adversely commenting upon this issue and calling upon the department to take up the issue on priority to clear the pendency and liquidate the demand locked up in the appeals, urgently.
In continuation of the Ministry’s General Circular No. 16/2012 dated 06.07.2012, on the subject cited above, it is stated that the time limit to file the financial statements in the XBRL ‘mode without any additional fee/ penalty has been extended up to 15th December,2012 or within 30 days from the date of Annual General Meeting of the company whichever is later. General Circular No. 34/2012, Dated 25.10.2012
RAs have issued duty credit scrips during this period i.e. from 05.06.2012 to 26.7.2012 with a validity of 24 months. Keeping in view this situation and in order to avoid any increased transaction cost to exporters, it is clarified that duty credit scrips issued upto 26.07.2012 will continue to have validity of 24 months and duty credit scrips issued after 26.7.2012 will have validity of 18 months. Policy Circular No. 7 (RE-2012)/2009-14
The matter has since been reviewed in consultation with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India and it has been decided to allow ADs to sell foreign exchange to a unit in the DTA for making payment in foreign exchange to a unit in the SEZ for the services rendered by it (i.e. a unit in SEZ) to a DTA unit. It may, however, be ensured that there is an enabling provision of supplying these goods/services by the SEZ unit to the DTA unit and for payment in foreign exchange for such goods/ services to the SEZ unit, in the Letter of Approval (LoA) issued to the SEZ unit by the Development Commissioner(DC) of the SEZ. A. P. (DIR Series 2012-13) Circular No. 46
As per the extant guidelines, only designated branches of AD Category I banks maintaining accounts of FIIs are allowed to act as market makers to FIIs for hedging their currency risk on the market value of entire investment in equity and/or debt in India as on a particular date.
A Joint meeting of CBEC and CBDT was held on 10th Oct., 2012, under the Convenorship of Chairperson, CBDT regarding appropriate steps to be taken for recovery of taxes due from M/s. Kingfisher Airlines Ltd. (KFA). It was informed that the Karnataka High Court vide order dated 26-9-2012 have restrained the Department from making further recovery and have permitted KFA to operate their accounts. As a result, the Income Tax Department has lifted the attachments of various bank accounts of KFA.
Circular No. 9/2012 Representations have been received from various sections of the Industry on the difficulties faced in the matter of Tax Deduction at Source on Gas Transportation Charges paid by the purchasers of Natural gas to the sellers of gas.
Gazette Notification Dt. 27th March, 2012 issued by Department of Economic Affairs (Infrastructure Section), Ministry of Finance on “Harmonised Master list of Infrastructure sub-sectors” and amended by Department of Economic Affairs from time to time by way of new notification.
