Field offices will not ask the establishments seeking grant of exemption from the operation of the EPF Scheme, 1952 to furnish of copy of Income Tax Recognition Order as an essential document to be submitted with proposals for grant of exemption. However, immediately after grant of exemption by the appropriate Government, the establishment should get recognition from the Income Tax authorities for its Trust.
Employees’ Provident Fund Organisation Ministry of Labour, Govt. Of India No. C-Ex/32(27)07/WB/EX/EZ/8848 […]
It is clarified that Declaration Form can be accepted in case of UAN based claim form without attestation of the employer. Henceforth, the attestation of employers on the Declaration Form would not be required in case of UAN based Claim Form No. 31(UAN).
The Board is examining the desirability and expediency of prescribing situation/circumstances under which levy of fee under Section 234E may cause genuine hardship to the taxpayers, so as to prescribe guidelines for waiver of such fees by virtue of the powers of the Board under Section 119(2)(a) of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
The Income-tax Department is committed to promote voluntary compliance with the direct tax laws through quality tax payer service. The Department is consistently striving for providing efficient services and assisting the tax payers to discharge their tax obligations. It aspires for continual improvement in its service delivery mechanism
It has been decided that from now onwards (a.) it shall be mandatory on the part of Enforcement Officers, to report numbers of employer in respect of these security/manpower/facility management establishments with reference to each of principal employer/clients being served by these establishments
The functionality for selection of cases and for generation of notice u/s 143(2)/148 will be made available w.e.f. 01/08/2016 in Income Tax Business Application (ITBA) as per the following details:
The arrears as accruing on account of revised pay consequent upon fixation of pay under CCS (RP) Rules, 2016 with effect from 01.01.2016 shall be paid in cash in one installment along with the payment of salary for the month of August, 2016, after making necessary adjustment on account of GPF and NPS, as applicable
As you are aware, the assessment proceedings in all cases selected under scrutiny are now to be conducted through e-mail based communications unless the taxpayer concerned himself desires to opts out of the Paperless Assessment Scheme. The assessing officer also can decide to switch over to the manual mode of assessment, after recording reasons in this regards, if he faces practical difficulties like voluminous nature of submissions etc.
a) Annex I – contains a brief summary of the amendments made vide various notifications to the existing Tariff and Non-Tariff notifications and issuances of new rules namely the Articles of Jewellery (Collection of Duty) Rules, 2016. b) Annex II – contains a brief summary of clarifications and instructions issued by way of circulars.
