Revenue Secretary has directed that henceforth any notice/letter/communication issued by any officer under Department of Revenue; including CBDT, its directorates and field formations; to the tax payers, members of public should invariably contain mention of email address and office phone numbers, of the officers signing such, communications/notice/letters for facilitating tax payers’ electronic interface with the Department All are requested to kindly ensure that the above directions are strictly followed.
Notification No. 142/2015-CUSTOMS (N. T.) In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise & Customs, being satisfied that it is necessary and expedient so to do, hereby makes the following amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 36/2001-Customs (N.T.), dated the 3rd August, 2001, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section-3, Sub-section (ii), vide number S. O. 748 (E), dated the 3rd August, 2001, namely:-
F. No. 390/Misc./69/2015-JC Chief Commissioners are already empowered under the provisions of Section 35Q (as made applicable to service tax matters also under Section 83 of Finance Act,1994) and Section 146A of Customs Act,1962 read with clause (ii) of rule 2(c) of the CESTAT (Procedures) Rules, 1982 to authorize a jurisdictional officer to appear before the CESTAT Bench for pleading a case on behalf of the department . The Board has decided that where no officer is available to argue cases, based on merits of the case, the Chief Commissioner may, in such cases authorize any other officer of his zone to appear before the Tribunal.
S.O. 3388(E).—In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 1 of the Companies (Amendment) Act, 2015 (21 of 2015), the Central Government hereby appoints the 14th day of December, 2015 as the date on which the provisions of section 13 and 14 of the said Act shall come into force.
6A. Omnibus approval for related party transactions on annual basis.- All related party transactions shall require approval of the Audit Committee and the Audit Committee may make omnibus approval for related party transactions proposed to be entered into by the company subject to the following conditions, namely:-
DGFT has received representations from exporters requesting for providing benefits under focus Product Scheme of Foreign Trade Policy 2009-14 on the export of industrial valves under item at Sl No. 269 of Appendix 37-D, Table-I of Foreign Trade Policy 2009-14 notified vide public notice no.52 dated 25.02.2014 or under any other any other SI. No. in the earlier public notices having same description and even to those items which are not used in bicycles.
13. Reporting of frauds by auditor and other matters: (1) lf an auditor of a company, in the course of the performance of his duties as statutory auditor, has reason to believe that an offence of fraud, which involves or is expected to involve individually an amount of rupees one crore or above, is being or has been committed against the company by its officers or employees, the auditor shall report the matter to the Central Government.
Notification No. 62/2015-Customs (ADD) Seeks to levy definitive anti-dumping duty on Abendazole, originating in, or exported from the Peoples Republic of China, for a period of five years
Notification No. 57/2015 – Customs Seeks to further amend Notification No. 69/2011-Customs, dated 29th July, 2011 so as to provide a concessional rate of basic customs duty in respect of tariff item 84082020 [engines of a kind used for the propulsion of motor vehicles – of cylinder capacity exceeding 250 cc] and 87084000 [gear box and parts thereof, of motor vehicles], w.e.f. 1st of January, 2016 at 5.94% and 8.13%, respectively, when imported under the India-Japan Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IJCEPA)
Notification No. 92/2015 – Income Tax Statement under sub-section (7) of section 115UB. 12CB.(1) The statement of income paid or credited by an investment fund to its unit holder shall be furnished by the person responsible for crediting or making payment of the income on behalf of an investment fund and the investment fund to the- (i) unit holder by 30th day of June of the financial year following the previous year during which the income is paid or credited in Form No. 64C, duly verified by the person paying or crediting the income on behalf of the investment fund in the manner indicated therein; and
