The Finance Bill, 2015, has received the assent of the Honorable President and has been notified. In the Budget, 2015, certain amendments in the Finance Act, 1994 have been incorporated through the Finance Act, 2015, which will come into effect from a date to be notified. In this regard, 1st June, 2015 is being notified as the date on which the provisions as specified in paragraph 2 below will come into effect. Certain provisions in some notifications already issued, will also come into effect from 1st June, 2015.
To ascertain the status of implementation of the Supreme Court judgment in N.R Parmar and the guidelines issued by CBDT in the form of FAQs, meetings chaired by DGIT (HRD) were held on 30.3.2015 and 10-04-2015, with representatives of all CCAs and ITEF. The representatives from Bihar & iharkhand and Kerala and ITGOA were not present in the meetings. The highlights of the meeting are as below.
SLP proposals are to be sent in case adverse judgments relate to the following, irrespective of the amount involved: (a) Where the constitutional validity of the provisions of an Act or Rule is under challenge; and (b) Where Notification/Instruction/Order or Circular has been held to be illegal or ultra vires.
Instruction No 4/2015 The minimum number of cases to be audited by each Additional CIT, SAP or IAP in a year shall be as under: Additional CIT (Audit): 150 SAP : 300 IAP : 600 (Corporate Cases) or 700 (Non- corporate Cases)
Finance Minister has, while responding to the discussions on the Finance Bill in Rajya Sabha on 7th May, 2015, announced constitution of a Committee headed by Justice A.P. Shah to look into, inter alia, the issue of MAT on FIIs. The Committee is expected to give its report on this issue expeditiously.
I am directed to invite your kind attention to this office letter of even number dated 22.4.2015 calling nominations for the aforesaid training programme to be held at NADT on 14th and 15th May, 2015. The same has also been uploaded on irsofficeronline website. This office is yet to receive nominations from your Charge. The same may kindly be sent on priority so as to enable us to make logistics arrangements related to the programme.
Instructions regarding expeditious clearance of export goods to Nepal in the wake of emergency relief operations undertaken in India-reg. F.No. 201/03/2015-CX.6 Dated: April 30, 2015
While replying to the discussions on the Finance Bill, 2015 in Lok Sabha today, Finance Minister has announced certain further changes in Central Excise and Customs duty rates. Notifications No.23 to No.27/2015-Central Excise and notifications No. 28 to No.30/2015- Customs, all dated 30th April, 2015 have been issued to give effect to these announcements. Notifications No.12 and No.13/2015-Central Excise (N.T.), dated 30th April, 2015 has also been issued in this regard. As regards Service Tax, notification No.12/2015-Service Tax, dated 30.04.2015 has been issued.
Declaration of Assets and Liabilities by public servants under section 44 of the Lokpal and Lokayuktas Act, 2013 – extension of last date for filing of revised returns by public servants who have filed property returns under the existing service rules – reg.
Banks are, therefore, directed to include ‘third gender’ in all forms/applications etc. prescribed by the Reserve Bank or the banks themselves, wherein any gender classification is envisaged.
