On the basis of the decision of the Government, interest rates for small savings schemes are to be notified on quarterly basis. Accordingly. the rates of interest on various small savings schemes for the third quarter of financial year 2016-17 starting on 1st October, 2016 and ending on 31st December, 2016
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 45ZB of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934 (2 of 1934), the Central Government hereby constitutes the Monetary Policy Committee of the Reserve Bank of India, consisting of the following, namely:-
Kind attention is invited to the following circulars issued by the Board regarding adjudication of cases in Central Excise and Service Tax. In supersession of these circulars and any other circular issued on the above subject, instructions from paragraph 2 onwards are hereby issued to revise the existing monetary limits for adjudication and to allow greater flexibility in allocation of cases amongst adjudicating authorities.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 32 and section 32AD of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby notifies the following districts of the State of Andhra Pradesh as backward areas under the first proviso to clause (iia) of sub-section (1) of section 32 and sub-section (1) of section 32AD of the said Act, namely
It was brought to Board’s notice that even for Advance Authorizations registered electronically at EDI Customs location i.e. where electronic ledger gets maintained, the physical authorizations, that are simultaneously issued and presented, are endorsed by Customs with manual debits of usage and this practice is not uniformly followed at all EDI ports of registration.
Pursuant to the repeal of the Forward Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1952 (FCRA) and amendment to the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 (SCRA), the Central Government, in exercise of the powers conferred by clause (bc) of section 2 of the SCRA and in consultation with the SEBI, have vide Notification No. S.O. 3068(E) dated September 27, 2016 notified the goods specified therein, for the purpose of clause (bc) of section 2 of the SCRA with effect from the date of the said notification.
At present the only instrument available in the Commodity Derivatives market is futures on individual commodities. Introduction of new commodity derivatives products has been a subject of deliberation as it is considered to be conducive for the overall development of the commodity derivatives market, attracting broad base participation, enhancing liquidity, facilitating hedging and bringing in more depth to the commodity derivatives market.
section 2 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (I of 1944), read with sub-rule ( I) of rule 3 of the Central Excise Rules, 2002, the Central Board of Excise and Customs, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 30/2014-Central Excise (N.T.) dated the 14th October, 2014, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, vide number G.S.R. 724 (E) dated, the 14th October, 2014
In order to further facilitate the filing of declarations even after the office hours, the Pr. CCs.I.T are instructed to ensure that the counters for receiving the declarations under I.D.S., 2016 remain open till 8.00 P.M. on 28th and 29th September, 2016 in all jurisdictions.
It is seen that till 27-09-2016, notices have not been issued in 991 cases. These 991 cases include 80 cases which are lying with inactive codes. AO are requested to make arrangements for issue of notice u/s 143(2) well before the time barring date i.e. 30.09.2016.
