The representations have been examined and with the approval of competent authority, it is informed that it has been decided to grant another 25% of the quota to the erstwhile licencees under the aforementioned Circulars.
The matter has been examined in the Department and with approval of competent authority, it is informed that the request has been agreed to. Accordingly, import of textile and textile articles made under Custom Notification No.32/97-Cus dated 1.4.1997 shall be exempt from the testing for hazardous dyes as required under the aforementioned provisions.
The above would be in supercession of Para III (1) (c) of the minutes of the Port Officers’ Meeting dated 25.11.2008. Provision regarding EOP as contained in the minutes would, however, remain applicable.
In this regard, it has been observed that discounts (offered to foreign buyers) do not form part of FOB value. Thus, FOB value on which the entitlement would be computed under Chapter 3 reward schemes would exclude ‘discounts’. Hence the phrase ‘the computation of entitlement is to be done on the FOB
The Mutual Fund may charge the load within the stipulated limit of 7% and without any discrimination to any specific group of unit holders. However, any change at a later stage shall not affect the existing unit holders adversely
The salient features of the MVAT Act amendments are briefly explained below: 2. Revised Returns-Section 20 (4) is substituted:- Earlier the revised returns could be filed anytime before the notice for assessment was served or within nine months from the end of the year, to which the return relates, whichever is earlier. Certain contingencies were not covered under aforesaid provision. Due to this many dealers could not file the revised returns in certain situations. Now section 20(4) is substituted and its scope is expanded to cover the following situations also:
No acquirer, who together with persons acting in concert with him holds, fifty five per cent (55%) or more but less than seventy five per cent (75%) of the shares or voting rights in a target company, shall acquire either by himself or through persons acting in concert with him any additional shares entitling him to exercise voting rights or voting rights therein, unless he makes a public announcement to acquire shares in accordance with these Regulations
SEBI had introduced the process of ASBA vide its circular dated July 30, 2008 and made it applicable to all book built public issues opening on or after September 1, 2008.
As regards the requirement of the Customs EDI Systems under Regulation 5(1)(j), the infrastructure required to be provided by the custodian shall include the Civil and electrical infrastructure including properly air-conditioned office space……. shall also be provided. (last line modified is as follows) In addition to the above, the custodian would be required to undertake site preparation including civil works, electrical works, electrical fittings, air-conditioning, etc. they would also provide DG Set for power back up and link to the EDI Server. The networking, communication equipments, Uninterrupted Power Supply System, Computers/Personal Computers/Thin Clients, servers, printers and other computer peripherals as may be specified by the Directorate General of Systems shall also be provided by the custodian.
Payments termed as ‘commission’ made to a Managing Director/ Directors, whether whole-time or independent, would not be ‘commission’ as envisaged under the Service Tax category of Business Auxiliary Services. Hence, payments of commission made to the Managing Director/ Directors would not be subject to Service Tax.
