The clarification regarding Sec. 138 of the Income tax Act, 1961 with reference to CBDT earlier notification No. SO 576 dated 23/05/2003, which was issued on 21st September, 2016 vide F.No. 225/120/2016/ITA.II, is hereby withdrawn. This may be brought to the notice of all concerned.
Principal Commissioners or Commissioners are advised to take a lenient view on receipt of a valid application under section 273A of the Act in respect of an issue for the said assessment year which is identical to the issue on which a valid declaration has been made under the Income Deceleration Scheme 2016 for other assessment year(s) subject to payment of the entire amount payable under the Scheme.
Notification issued u/s 138(2) of the Act prescribes a general prohibition in furnishing of information/documents before any person/authority. Two exceptions have, however, been prescribed where the information can be made The first exception pertains to providing of information by DGIT(Systems) in respect of records or data related to PAN, tax deduction account number and computerization of income-tax records of assessee.
As per sub-section 2 of Section 32K of the Central Excise Act, 1944 also made applicable to Service Tax matters by virtue of Section 83 of the Finance Act, 1994 and sub-section 2 of Section 127H of the Customs Act, 1962, immunity granted to a person from prosecution, penalty and fine shall stand withdrawn if such person fails to pay any sums specified under order of settlement within the stipulated time.
It has been decided that in case of duplicate UANs issued to one EPF member as mentioned above, the following solutions are detailed below: • The members should be advised to apply for P.F. transfer from previous EPF account to the present EPF account.
I am directed to state that the Central Government had withdrawn the following notifications granting approval u/s 35(1)(ii) of the income-tax Act, 1961 to the respective entities which were notified earlier. The details are as follows:
I am also directed to state that as per CVC guidelines, the inquiry proceedings under CCS (CCA) Rules, 1965 are to be completed in six months.The Member (P&V), CBDT has desired that in all the cases where a period of more than six months has passed since appointment of inquiry officer, further time of three months may be allowed for completion of inquiry proceedings.
Computer Assisted Scrutiny Selection (CASS) for the current year has been finalized. The Board has approved the parameters for selection of cases and cases will be visible to the Assessing Officers from 19.09.2016.
It is clarified that a declaration under the Scheme can be filed in respect of the assessment year for which notice under section 142(1)/143(2)/148/153A/153C has been served on or before 31.05.2016 but the proceedings have been completed and the period of filing declaration under the Scheme has not expired.
India has signed Free/Preferential Trade Agreements / Comprehensive Economic Partnership/ Cooperation Agreement (FTA/CEPA/CECA) with a number of countries and trading blocks.
