CBIC has decided that the written examination under regulation 6 of the Customs Brokers Licensing Regulations, 2018 will be held online from the year 2019 onwards. The online examination will be conducted by National Academy of Customs, Indirect Taxes and Narcotics (NACIN).
It has been recommended by the Hon’ble Public Accounts Committee that the process of the Registration Process of Charitable Trusts / Institutions should be brought under the purview of internal audit.
It emerges that the above Trust was earlier approved under section 35(1}(ii} of the Act which expired on 31.03.2006. Thereafter ,this entity, being not recognized for purpose of section 35(1)(ii) of the Act, is not eligible to raise donations for undertaking scientific research however, the Trust has raised substantial donations over the last six years on the basis of a forged certificate while the donors have irregularly claimed weighted deduction u/s. 35(1)(ii) of the Act on donations made to the Trust.
It has been unambiguously and expressly provided that adverse judgments relating to the following issues should be contested on merits notwithstanding that the tax effect entailed is less than the monetary limits specified in para 3 above or there is no tax effect:
On careful consideration of the representation of the contractors visa-vis existing guidelines issued in the matter, Government have been pleased to issue following revised guidelines in supersession of the guidelines issued vide Finance Department letter dated 07.12.2017:
I am sure these Probationers will diligently shoulder their responsibilities as IRS officers at a time when Indian Customs has made a distinct mark in trade facilitation and ease of doing business and when GST implementation is in the
PCIT/CIT is personally responsible as per Instruction No. 7 of 2011 to ensure proper filing of appeals in High Courts & consequential follow up action. Proper filing of appeals implies that defects /office objections raised by High Court’s Registry
. The suspected fraud cases are being reported to CPC-ITR, Bengaluru by CPC-TDS and various field formations. Such suspected cases are broadly classified in two categories i.e (i) Suspected Fraud PANs (ii) PANs linked with the suspected fraud TANs.
As you may be aware that facility for online submission of IW-1 return by employers has started from 1st November 2018. It is observed that such returns are not being submitted online by concerned employers of establishments employing International Workers
Large-scale outsourcing of data entry functions in the Income Tax Department poses a risk of refund frauds and leakage of confidential data. It has been noticed that quite often the outsourced data entry operators have access to the RSA Tokens issued to the officers and are also aware of the passwords.
