I am directed to invite attention to the Board’s circular No.4/2004-Cus dated 16.01.2004 which debars conversion of free shipping bills to Advance License/DFRC/DEPB shipping bills and allows conversion of shipping bills from one export promotion scheme to
Attention is invited to Board’s Circular No. 80/1/2005 – ST dated 10.05.2005 and No. 97/8/2007 dated 23.08.2007 (para12.2) which specifies uniform monetary limits for adjudication of cases under section 73 and section 83 A of the Finance Act, 1994. At present adjudication powers in Service Tax cases have been delegated upto the level of Assistant Commissioners and Superintendents were not vested with any authority to adjudicate cases.
It has been brought to the notice of the Board that the service tax payers have raised doubts in determining the Export/Import of the new services introduced vide the Finance Act 2010(14 of 2010), as they have not been notified under the respective categories of services enlisted under the Export of Services Rules 2005 and Taxation of Services (Provided from Outside India and Received in India) Rules, 2006.
It has been the constant endeavor of the Board to streamline the procedures relating to processing of departmental litigation before the Supreme Court, High Courts and CESTAT. Several circulars/ instructions have been issued by the Board, in the past, in this regard prescribing the procedure to be followed and precautions to be taken by the field formations. However, it has been observed that more than 50% of the proposals received by the Board suffer from infirmities including delays beyond limitation period.
Circular No. 6/2010-Income Tax 2.As Regional Rural banks (RRB) are basically corporate entities (and not cooperative societies, they were considered to be not eligible for deduction under section 80P when the section was originally introduced. However, as section 22 of the Regional Rural Bank Act provides that a RRB shall be deemed to be cooperative society for the purposes of the Income tax Act 1961, in order to make such banks eligible for deduction under section 80P, CBDT issued a beneficial Circular No. 319 dated 11-1-1982, which stated that for the purpose of section 80P, a Regional Rural Bank shall be deemed to be a cooperative society.
The Ministry has announced the revised All Industry Rates (AIR) of Duty Drawback vide Notification No. 84/2010-Cus. (N.T.), dated 17/09/2010. The rates of drawback have been made effective from 20.9.2010. The Notification may please be downloaded
Circular No. MRD/DP/ 31 /2010, dated 15-9-2010 – At least 50% of other than promoter holdings as per clause 35 of Listing Agreement are in dematerialized mode before shifting the trading in the securities of the company from TFTS to normal Rolling Settlement. For this purpose, the listed companies shall obtain a certificate from its Registrar and Transfer Agent (RTA) and submit the same to the stock exchange/s. However, if an issuer-company does not have a separate RTA, it may obtain a certificate in this regard from a practicing company Secretary/Chartered Accountant and submit the same to the stock exchange/s.
Your kind attention is invited to the Notification No.102/2007-Customs dated 14th September 2007 whereby exemption from Special CVD of 4% leviable under sub-section (5) of Section 3 of the Customs tariff Act, 1975 has been provided subject to the fulfillment of
In terms of para 9 of Schedule 1 to the Notification, Indian companies are required to report, the details of the amount of consideration received for issue of FDI instruments, viz. equity shares, fully and mandatorily convertible preference shares and debentures under the FDI scheme, in the Advance Reporting Format along with the KYC report on the non-resident investor, to the Regional Office of the Reserve Bank in whose jurisdiction the Registered Office of the company operates, within 30 days of receipt of the amount of consideration. Further, the Indian company is required to issue the FDI instruments to the non-resident investor within 180 days of the receipt of the inward remittance and report the same in Form FC-GPR, to the Regional Office concerned of the Reserve Bank, within 30 days from the date of issue of shares.
It may kindly be recalled that while communicating the clean energy cess notifications, it has been stated that the office of Chief Controller of Accounts has already been requested to assign a minor head for the payment of this cess both on domestic and imported coal & relevant communication conveying this to the field formations would be issued in due course. In this regard, the Office of the Principle Chief Controller of Accounts has informed that pending opening of new Head of Account,
