The matter has been examined in the Board. In order to redress the issue, it has been decided that only in the rarest of rare and genuine cases manual processing and clearance will be allowed and data for manual documents is compulsorily entered and transmitted at all locations within the stipulated time period.
Allowing members of the EPS’ 95 the benefit of the actual salary in the Pension Fund exceeding wage limit of either Rs. 5000/- or Rs. 6500/- per month from the effective date respectively as per the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s order in Civil Appeal NO(S) 10013-10014 of2016 arising out of SLP No. 33032-33033 of 2015
I would like to bring to your notice that as many as 296 cases of disciplinary proceedings are pending in the Zones across India where the Inquiry Officers have not submitted the Inquiry Reports.
All the exempted Trusts are hereby advised to submit the pending online returns from October, 2016 till date. It is clarified that the return for the wage month March, 2017 is to be filed latest by 15th of May, 2017
This is in reference to the subject mentioned above. Phase 1 of the Prosecution Module of ITBA was rolled out on 03.03/017 in which facility to initiate prosecution proposal. issue authorization u/s 279(1) and recording Court proceedings was provided. The functionality for Compounding Proceedings and Grant/ Withdraw Immunity has now been rolled out in Phase 2 with effect from 23.05.2017.
All DBT and PAHAL (including kerosene) transactions to be routed through the National Payment Corporation of India (NPCI). A transaction cost of Rs. 50/- would be payable for each transaction to be shared between the sponsor banks, destination entities and NPCI in the ratio of Rs.0.10, Rs.0.25 and Rs.0.15 in accordance with the extant NPCI Circular (Circular No.136 dated 23.11.2015).
I would request all zones to ensure a step up of outreach programmes on GST in close coordination with the State officers, continued stress on updating of officers and staff with changes in rules and continued familiarity with the GST laws.
As you all are aware the GST Council had a two day meeting on 18thand 19th of May and approved seven Rules and related formats and also the chapter wise and rate wise GST schedule for goods and services as well as the GST Compensation Cess rates.
CBEC has already got approval of FM for plan for reorganization of existing Central Excise and Service Tax field formations according to requirements of GST regime.
For the smooth roll out of GST, tax officials were required to be trained on the GST common portal of GSTN. However, there appears to be a huge difference between the working strength of tax officials and the number of officials trained.
