Delhi High Court stay order in W.P. 2892/2016 filed by Mr. Kavin Gulati and W.P. 2891/2016 filed by M/s Delhi High Court Bar Association; Gujarat High Court Stay Order dated 20.03.2016 in SCA No. 4296/2016; Calcutta High Stay Order in W.P. No. 291/2016- Filing of Transfer Petition in Supreme Court and seeking vacation of stay against various High Court Orders staying the levy of Service Tax on legal services provided by Senior Advocates- reg.
The matter has been examined by the Board and it is observed that in reference to Serial No. 1 of the Notification No. 151/94-Cus dated 13.07.1994, exemption is not limited to the ‘Indian Airlines’ (now called as ‘National Aviation Company of India Limited’). It is available to any Indian airline, in other words, to all Indian airlines.
All the Members of CBDT and all the Pr.CCsIT/Pr.DGsIT will personally examine 10 CPGRAMS grievances every week. Similarly, all the CCsIT and Pr.CsIT/CsIT will personally examine 20 and 30 CPGRAMS grievances respectively every week. A monthly report about such monitoring of grievances will be forwarded to the Zonal Members by the Pr.CsIT/Pr.DGsIT by 5th of succeeding month.
n view of the urgency of the matter, the Directorate of Systems had identified a list of 444 cases with a high probability of data entry error, and out of this confirmation has been received from the field for 155 cases. On verification it is seen that there is a high percentage of data entry errors in these cases and therefore the rest of the cases in this list i.e. 289 cases needs to be verified at the earliest. This list is placed on i-taxnet at the following path.
It was decided that the currently existing system of physical pre-printed certificates for KVP and NSC shall stand discontinued w.e.f. 1.4.2016 and shall be replaced by ‘National Savings Certificate/Kisan Vikas Patra Certificate on electronic – mode (e-mode) . Till the CBS system transits to that e-mode, banks and post offices may choose to issue a physical certificate recorded on a passbook.
Following the issue of CBEC Circular 10/2016-Cus dated 15.03.2016 regarding implementation of the Single Window Integrated Declaration with effect from 1st of April, 2016, the Bill of Entry will be replaced by an ‘Integrated Declaration’, which covers all information required for import clearance by the other government agencies.
We have included a separate Chapter relating to Transfer Pricing in the Compliance Audit Report for the year 2014-15 (No. 3 of 2016). We expect that every year substantial number of Transfer Pricing cases would be processed. Since Audit points out short/excess adjustment done by Transfer Pricing Officers, it has, therefore, been decided to fix the following limits of short/excess adjustment by TPO for Compliance Audit Report 2015-16 and onwards :
In many cases the proposals for filing SLP are being sent to the Board much after the time limit of 15 days available with the Commissionerate is over. In fact in some cases such proposals have been received in the Board after the time limit of 90 days is over. Such delays result in the dismissal of SLPs on the grounds of delay.
I am directed to invite your attention to the provisions contained in Schedule VII of DFPR which empowers the authorities mentioned therein, i.e. the Chief Commissioner and the Commissioner to write-off of irrecoverable amounts of Indirect Taxes upto Rs. 15 Lakh and Rs. 10 Lakh respectively.
As per Central Action Plan 2015-16, Systems Directorate was directed to identify the potential cases for prosecution under section 276CC (prosecution for non-filing of return of income). Earlier, non-filers for AY 2013-14 were identified by Systems Directorate for NMS Cycle-3. The last date for filing the return of income for the AY 2013-14 was 31-3-2015, and therefore the taxpayers identified under NMS Cycle-3 that have neither filed the return of income nor have submitted the response have been identified as potential prosecution cases under section 276CC.
