The scheme may be called North East Industrial Development Scheme (NEIDS), 2017. The scheme will cover States of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim and Tripura.
It has been decided to revise the CDIL and the limit for investment by FPIs in Government Securities and State Development Loans (SDL), for the Financial Year 2018-19, as follows:
Currently, there are no specific guidelines governing the depiction of performance of the surviving scheme, pursuant to merger of schemes. Further, it is observed that Mutual Funds adopt varied practices, such as disclosing the weighted average performance or performance of surviving schemes, while making such disclosures.
Interest rates on Small Savings Schemes for first quarter of financial year 2018-19 starting 1st April , 2018 shall remain unchanged from those notified for fourth quarter of FY 2017-18
In order to improve monitoring and also to ensure compliance with the LRS limits, it has been decided to put in place a daily reporting system by AD banks of transactions undertaken by individuals under LRS, which will be accessible to all the other ADs.
S.O. 1589(E).—Whereas the Protocol, amending the Convention between the Government of the Republic of India and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and on capital with Protocol signed at New Delhi, India on the 9th December 1996
In the Income-tax Rules, 1962, in rule 10VA, in sub-rule (2), for the words and brackets Member (Income-tax), Central Board of Direct Taxes, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, North Block, New Delhi, the words, the Member, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Department of Revenue, Ministry of Finance, North Block, New Delhi having supervision and control over the work of Foreign Tax and Tax Research (FT&TR) Division shall be substituted.
A facility has been created to check the current status of IEC application and status of IEC transmission to ICEGATE. The status query is based on PAN used in IEC application made to DGFT.
Derivatives on stocks (new/existing) which meet the enhanced eligibility criteria (given at para 4 above) shall be cash settled until further notification, however such stocks, if they fail to satisfy any of the enhanced eligibility criteria for a continuous period of three months, shall move from cash settlement to physical settlement.
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has imposed, through an order dated April 09, 2018, a monetary penalty of ₹ 30 million on IDBI Bank Limited (the bank) for non-compliance with the directions issued by RBI on Income Recognition and Asset Classification (IRAC) norms.
