A Committee has been constituted with Director General of Service Tax Smt. Sanghamitra Panda as Chairperson to review the scheme for electronic refund of service tax paid on taxable services used for export of goods. Other members of the Committee are Commissioner of Service Tax, Mumbai-1, Shri Sushil Solanki and Director, TRU Shri J. M. Kennedy.
As part of the Government’s commitment to good governance and elimination of corruption, the Ministry of Finance has amended the rules to enable all the Ministries and Departments to facilitate payments by direct credit to the bank accounts of the payees. Orders have also been issued by the Controller General of Accounts(CGA) that, with effect from 1st April 2012, all payments above Rs.25,000 to suppliers, contractors, grantee and loanee institutions shall be directly credited to their bank accounts.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs(CBEC ) has detected a total Central Excise and Service Tax evasion amounting to Rs.3333.28 crore and Rs.10286.73 crore respectively up to February, 2012 in the Financial Year 2011-12. Further, during the investigation, Central Excise Duty and Service Tax amounting to Rs.972.69 crore and Rs.1182.64 crore respectively has also been realized.
The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has constituted a Committee under the Chairmanship of Shri. Adi Godrej for framing a ‘National Corporate Governance Policy’ to suggest a comprehensive policy frame work to enable corporate governance of highest quality in all classes of companies without impinging on their internal autonomy to order their affairs in their best judgment.
Competition Commission of India (CCI) has imposed a penalty of Rs.5.66 crores on Schott Glass India Private Limited (Schott India) for violating the provisions of the Competition Act. The Commission in its order has held that Schott India has abused its dominant position in the industry by imposing unfair and dissimilar discounts which has resulted in an adverse impact on the converters in the downstream market.
As announced by the Union Finance Minister, Shri Pranab Mukherjee in his Budget speech, a Study Team has been set-up by the Government, under the leadership of Shri. M. K. Gupta to examine the possibility of a common tax code for service tax and central excise, which could be adopted to harmonize the two legislations. […]
Document acceptable as proof of identity and address as per Rule 114 of Income Tax Rules, 1962, for individual and HUF applicants. Document acceptable as proof of identity and address as per Rule 114 of Income Tax Rules, 1962 for Company, Firm, Association of persons (Trust), Association of persons (other than Trusts) or Body of Individuals or Local authority or Artificial Judicial Person
It shall be the responsibility of the Assessing Officer and the TRO to collect every demand that has been raised, except the following : (a) Demand which has not fallen due;(b) Demand which has been stayed by a Court or ITAT or Settlement Commission;(c) Demand for which a proper proposal for write-off has been submitted;(d) Demand stayed in accordance with paras B & C below.
Registration of a manufacturer will be cancelled automatically if excise duty returns are not filed for six months, as per the latest government proposal. In case of a service provider, the registration will be cancelled automatically if return is not filed for 12 months, said the draft of the common excise duty and service tax form on which the Revenue Department has sought comments from stakeholders by April 30.
The ECR facility is available from April, 2012. All Employers who are covered under the Employees’ Provident Funds & Miscellaneous Provisions Act, 1952 are required to register their establishments on EPFO website for filing the Electronic Challan cum Return (ECR) for wage month of March 2012 (payable in April 2012) onward. The registration process has already started from 20 March, 2012.
