India’s central bank on Tuesday eased oversees borrowing rules for Infrastructure Finance Companies (IFC). The IFC’s will not need the central bank’s nod to raise overseas funds equivalent to or less than half of their own funds, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) said in a statement.
Authority vide circular No. 46/IRDA/F&A/Nov.-07 dated 22.11.2007 has made it mandatory for to file quarterly report of solvency margin. The said circular mandates filing of Table II – Available solvency margin and solvency ratio as mentioned in IRDA (Assets, Liabilities and Solvency margin of Insurers) Regulations, 2000.
Authority vide Circular No. IRDA/F&I/CIR/012/01/2010 dated 28.01.2010, has introduced Public Disclosures by Insurers, which is comprehensive and covers all the important aspects of an insurer.
References have been received from field formations on the issue of levy of Education Cess and higher Education Cess on the Central Excise duty determined under Notification No. 17/2007-CE dated 1-3-2007 under compound levy scheme on S.S. Patta/Patti and Aluminium Circles.
As per Trade Circular 13T of 2010 No. dated 31st March 2010 Last date for filing the Audit Report in form 704 for F.Y. 2008-09 was 30th April 2010.Dealers are required to submit “the statement of submission of audit report in form e-704” along with required document on or before 10th May 2010.
Pursuant to the decision to discontinue the EDIFAR site, SEBI, vide its circular no. CIR!CFD!DCR!3!2010 dated April 16, 2010, has advised all Stock Exchanges to carry out amendments to the Equity Listing Agreement viz omission of Clause 51 from the Listing Agreement.
As per Rule 4 (7) of the CENVAT Credit Rules, 2004, the CENVAT credit on input services is available only on or after the day on which payment of the value of input service and service tax is made. The section 67 (4) of the Finance Act, 1994, provides that gross amount charged includes payment made by issue of credit / debit notes or by entries in the books of account, where the transaction is with any associated enterprise.
Stock market regulator Securities & Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has widened the scope of index-based options by allowing exchanges to offer option contracts based on Sensex and Nifty with a tenure of up to five years. In January, 2008, Sebi had extended the period to three years. The share of index-based options in the total derivatives volumes has risen from around 10 per cent three years ago to 45 per cent in 2009-10 on the National Stock Exchange (NSE).
Attention of Authorised Persons in foreign exchange is invited to A.P.(DIR Series) Circular No. 19 dated October 30, 2000 and A.P. (DIR Series) Circular No.11 [A.P. (F.L. Series) Circular No.1] dated November 13, 2001, in terms of which Authorised Dealers and Full Fledged Money Changers are permitted to sell foreign exchange in the form of foreign currency notes and coins, up to USD 2,000 or its equivalent, to the travellers proceeding to countries other than Iraq, Libya, Islamic Republic of Iran, Russian Federation and other Republics of Commonwealth of Independent States.
Attention of the Authorised Dealer Category – I (AD Category – I) banks is invited to the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by a Person Resident Outside India) Regulations, 2000, notified vide Notification No. FEMA 20/2000-RB dated May 3, 2000, as amended from time to time.
