The Central Board of Direct Taxes had issued Circular No. 23 (hereinafter called “the Circular”) on 23rd July 1969 regarding taxability of income accruing or arising through, or from, business connection in India to a non-resident, under section 9 of the Income-tax Act, 1961. 2. It is noticed that interpretation of the Circular by some of the taxpayers to claim relief is not in accordance with the provisions of section 9 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 or the intention behind the issuance of the Circular.
A new scheme under paragraph 4A.2 has been introduced in the Foreign Trade Policy 2009-2014 (FTP) for import of diamonds for certification and grading and re-export thereof. Procedure in this regard has also been specified under paragraph 4A.14 of Handbook of Procedure Volume I (HBP). To avoid dichotomy in following the procedure by the field formations for allowing import of diamonds for the specified purpose and re-export thereof, the salient feature of this scheme and procedure in this regard are laid down.
Reference has been received from Trade seeking clarification regarding classification of Quilts and Quilted bed spreads. These are ready to use products. The process of manufacture of these products is that between two layers of fabrics, a layer of cotton/synthetic fabric, etc is placed and thereafter, it is stitched and converted into made-ups and articles of bedding.
It has been brought to the notice of the Board that some manufacturers of Motor Vehicles are getting complete Motor Vehicles manufactured by sending the Chassis of the Motor Vehicles to independent body builders for building the body as per the design/specification of the manufacturer. The practice followed is that the Chassis is transferred to the Body builder on payment of appropriate Central Excise duty on stock transfer basis and is not sold to them .
. All stock exchanges are advised to bring to the notice of all their members and to disseminate the same on their respective websites for easy access to investors.
I am directed to invite your attention to the Board’s Circular No. 54/2005-Cus dated 30.12.2005 prescribing the Guidelines for compounding of offences for implementing the provisions of the Customs Act, 1962 and the Customs (Compounding of offences) Rules, 2005.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-rule (2) of rule 17A of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Rules, 2005, the requisite notification cited at reference was issued. As a result of this notification every registered dealer who is entitled to claim refund as provided under section 51 of Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 was required to file refund application in Form-501 electronically. The electronic filing of said application was made mandatory with effect from 1st October 2009.
In order to address the difficulties in supply of gold, silver and platinum to small jewellery exporters, DGFT has included 5 more new agencies/entities as “nominated agencies” for import of gold/silver/platinum (hereinafter referred as the “precious metal”). Now the nominated agencies are as under:
The Stock Exchanges are also advised to bring the provisions of this circular to the notice of the member brokers/clearing members of the Exchange and also to disseminate the same on the website.
Representations have now been received stating that RAs are taking the view that the clarification of 11.4.08 can have only prospective effect. The matter has been considered. It is clarified that the letter dated 11.4.2008 issued to all RAs was clarificatory in nature and therefore claims filed before that date for refund of Secondary & Higher education cess are also eligible for refund.
