The monetary limits for filing appeals before the Income Tax Appellate Tribunals and High Courts were raised to ₹ 10 lakhs and ₹ 20 lakhs respectively by Circular 21 of 2015 dated 10.12.2015. Queries have been received regarding the applicability of Circular 21 of 2015 to cross objections filed by the Department before the ITAT under section 253(4) of the Income-tax Act and to references to the High Court under sections 256(1) and 256(2) of the Act.
In cases where that tax payer has contested the demand, CPC would issue a reminder to the assessing officer about the contention of the taxpayer, asking him to either confirm, or make appropriate changes to the demand within thirty days. In case no response is received from the AO within thirty days, CPC would issue the refund without any adjustment. The responsibility of non-adjustment of refund against outstanding arrears, if any, would lie with the assessing officer,
This Directorate has extracted the data pertaining to cases pending for scrutiny u/s 143(3) and processing u/s 143(1) of the I.T. Act 1961, as available on the AST system, which are getting barred by limitation of time on 31.03.2016, so as to facilitate timely completion of these cases.
The CBDT has issued Office memorandum F.No.404/72-93-ITCC dated 29.02.2016 by which it has revised Instruction No. 1914 dated 21.03.1996 and issued fresh guidelines for stay of demand at the first appeal stage.
The concerned Chief Commissioner will assess the number of SPPs required for prosecution/criminal cases of CBEC in his Zone. While deciding the number of SPPs in the Zone, the requirement of cases of the DGRI/DGCEI will also be taken into consideration. In case there is more than one Chief Commissioner in a Zone, the Chief Commissioner of Customs, will be the nodal authority
F. No. 334/8/2016-TRU Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue (Tax Research Unit) *** Amitabh Kumar Joint Secretary (Tax Research Unit) Tel: 011-23093027; Fax: 011-23093037 E-mail: amitabh.kumar@nic.in D.O.F. No.334/8/2016-TRU New Delhi, dated February29th, 2016 Dear Madam/Sir, Subject: Union Budget 2016 – Changes relating to Service Tax – reg. The Finance Minister […]
The Finance Minister has introduced the Finance Bill, 2016 in Lok Sabha today, i.e., 29th February, 2016. Changes in Customs and Central Excise law and rates of duty have been proposed through the Finance Bill, 2016. In order to prescribe effective rates of duty and to carry out changes in the Rules made under the respective Acts, the following notifications are being issued:
Digital transactions are defined as transactions in which the customer authorizes the transfer of money through electronic means, and the funds flow directly from one account to another. These accounts could be held in banks, or with entities/ providers. These transfers could be done through means of cards (debit / credit), mobile wallets, mobile apps, net banking, Electronic Clearing Service (ECS), National Electronic Fund Transfer (NEFT), Immediate Payment Service (IMPS), pre-paid instruments or other similar means.
It has been brought to notice of Board that after implementation of Single Window NOC Module, ex-bond Bills of Entry are getting referred to Participating Government Agencies (PGAs) for No Objection Certificate even though the same goods had received NOC from PGA at the time of warehousing i.e at the into bond Bill of Entry stage.
As per current process, PAN holder who wants to update core field and address details of the PAN allotted to him/her can file request for update through service providers (NSDL/UTIITSL). Details received from SPs in this regard in text file format are now uploaded in the system automatically through central schedulers removing manual intervention of the RCC. Request for updation in respect of core field updation and address updation are received in separate files from PAN service providers NSDL and UTIITSL.
