Based on the assessment of the utilization of the limits to FIIs for investments in Government Debt Old, corporate Debt Old and Government Debt Long Term category, it has been decided to allocate the unutilized limits. The bidding for this limit shall be done on the NSE from 15:30 hrs to 17:30 hrs, on April 23, 2012.
Pursuant to representations received from the listed entities and the auditing fraternity regarding difficulties, faced in submission of annual financial results along with Q4 results, more specifically owing to the first time adoption of the revised Schedule VI format recently notified by the MCA for FY 2011-12 results, it has been decided to, as a one-time measure, for the purpose of submission of FY 2011-12 financial results, restore, the earlier provision for the time being and review the situation at a later stage.
A Committee has been constituted with Director General of Service Tax Smt. Sanghamitra Panda as Chairperson to review the scheme for electronic refund of service tax paid on taxable services used for export of goods. Other members of the Committee are Commissioner of Service Tax, Mumbai-1, Shri Sushil Solanki and Director, TRU Shri J. M. Kennedy.
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.
