Circular No. 23/2015 Section 194A of Income Tax Act, 1961 stipulates deductions of tax at source (TDS) on interest other than interest on securities if the aggregate of amount of such interest credited or paid to the account of the payee during the financial year exceeds the specified amount .
In order to address this anomaly, in exercise of powers conferred under paragraph 1.03 read with paragraph 2.04 of the Foreign Trade Policy 2015-2020, the entry “Panama” at Serial No.50 under Country Group-C of Table 1 of Appendix 3BMEIS Schedule notified.
Henceforth, Department of Economic Affairs (DEA) will lead all negotiations on standalone BITs and investment chapters of CECAs/CEPAs/FTAs, along with representatives from the Ministries/Departments concerned, to ensure convergence between trade and investment issues.
In exercise of powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No. 22 of 1992), as amended, read with Para 1.02 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-20, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendment, with immediate effect.
F. No. 142/11/2015-TPL Section 6(3) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, prior to its amendment by the Finance Act, 2015, provided that a company is said to be resident in India in any previous year, if it is an Indian company or if during that year, the control and management of its affairs is situated wholly in India. This allowed tax avoidance opportunities for companies to artificially escape the residential status under these provisions by shifting insignificant or isolated events related with control and management outside India.
NOTIFICATION NO. 147/2015-CUSTOMS (N.T.) In exercise of the powers conferred by the second proviso to clause (ii) of sub- section (2) of section 61 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs, being satisfied that it is necessary so to do in the public interest, hereby specifies the class of goods, namely ‘crude’, imported and stored in underground rock caverns, in respect of which no interest shall be charged under the said section 61.
PR No. 297/2015 Sixth Meeting of the International Advisory Board of SEBI The Sixth meeting of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) was held on December 21 & 22, 2015. The following major issues were inter alia discussed during the meeting: i. Implementation of OECD Principles of […]
The Reserve Bank of India has, on a review, decided to extend the date for the public to exchange their pre-2005 banknotes till June 30, 2016. However, from January 01, 2016, such facility will only be available at identified bank branches (https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/Regionaloffices.aspx) and Issue Offices of the Reserve Bank. The Reserve Bank had, in June 2015, set the last date for public to exchange pre-2005 banknotes notes as December 31, 2015.
Notification No. 146/2015-Customs (N.T.) Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby appoints the Principal Commissioner of Customs (Import), Inland Container Depot, Tughlakabad, New Delhi to act as a Common Adjudicating Authority to exercise the powers and discharge the duties conferred or imposed on the officers mentioned in Column 3 in respect of the cases mentioned in Column 2 of the table given below for the purpose of adjudication of the show cause notices mentioned therein-
Instruction No. 18/2015 With effect from 01.04.2001, the provisions of section 115JB shall not be applicable to a foreign company (including an FII/FPI) if:- (i) the foreign company is a resident of a country with which India has a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement and such foreign company does not have a permanent establishment in accordance with the provisions of the relevant Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, or
