In exercise of the powers conferred by section 15 of the Government Savings Banks Act, 1873 (5 of 1873), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Post Office Time Deposit Rules, 1981, namely:-
In the Post Office (Monthly Income Account) Rules, 1987, in rule 8, in sub-rule (1), after clause (l), the following clause shall be inserted, namely: (m) 7.8 per cent. per annum in respect of deposits made on or after the 1st day of April, 2016.
Central Board of Direct Taxes signed 11 unilateral APAs on 28th March, 2016. With this signing, India has entered into 59 bilateral and/or unilateral APAs. 50 of these agreements have been signed in the current financial year. The agreements cover a range of international transactions, including corporate guarantees, royalty, software development services, IT enabled services and trading.
We have included a separate Chapter relating to Transfer Pricing in the Compliance Audit Report for the year 2014-15 (No. 3 of 2016). We expect that every year substantial number of Transfer Pricing cases would be processed. Since Audit points out short/excess adjustment done by Transfer Pricing Officers, it has, therefore, been decided to fix the following limits of short/excess adjustment by TPO for Compliance Audit Report 2015-16 and onwards :
Central Government hereby notifies that the subscriptions made to the fund on or after the 1st day of April, 2016 and the balances at the credit of the subscriber shall bear interest at the rate of 8.1 per cent. per annum.
In the Sukanya Samriddhi Account Rules, 2014, in rule 7, in sub-rule (1), after first proviso, the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:-Provided that in the case of a deposit made under these rules on or after the 1st day of April, 2016, it shall bear at the rate of 8.6 per cent per annum from the date of deposit.
In the Kisan Vikas Patra Rules, 2014 (hereinafter referred to as the said rules), in rule 16, in sub-rule (1), for the words eight years and four months, the words nine years and two months shall be substituted. In the said rules, in rule 17, in sub-rule (3), the premature encashment value of Certificates purchased on or after 1.4.2016 but on or before 30.6.2016 shall be:-
In many cases the proposals for filing SLP are being sent to the Board much after the time limit of 15 days available with the Commissionerate is over. In fact in some cases such proposals have been received in the Board after the time limit of 90 days is over. Such delays result in the dismissal of SLPs on the grounds of delay.
It has been decided to enhance the limit for investment by FPIs in Government Securities, for the next half year, as follows: a. Limit for FPIs in Central Government securities shall be enhanced to INR 140,000 cr on April 04, 2016 and INR 144,000 cr on July 05, 2016 respectively from the existing limit of INR 135,400 cr.
This circular is issued with an objective to streamline the provisions of the facility of client code modification at commodity derivatives exchanges in line with the securities market. It is also beingre-emphasized here that this facility is expected to be used more as an exception rather thana routine
