Circular No. 25/2015-Custom Duty The Board has received representations from other Ministries, trade bodies and traders regarding issues arising from the interpretation of Board’s circular no. 4/2008 – Cus dated 12th February 2008, The circular requires that field formations rely upon a chartered engineer’s inspection report while valuing imports of second hand machinery and that inspection/appraisement reports issued at the port of loading should be accepted.
Notification No. 101/2015 – Customs (N.T.) In exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), and in super session of the notification of the Central Board of Excise & Customs No. 97/2015-CUSTOMS (N.T.), dated 1st October, 2015, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such supersession, the Central Board of Excise & Customs hereby determines that the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currencies specified
NOTIFICATION NO. 100/2015-Cus.,(NT), 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:-
Notification No. 99/2015-Customs (N.T.) CBEC hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 61/94-Customs (N.T.), dated the 21st November, 1994, published in the Gazette of India, vide number S.O. 828 (E), dated the 21st November, 1994, namely:-
On a review, it has been decided that the cooperative banks may also use the historical spot gold price data of the preceding 30 days publicly disseminated by a Commodity Exchange regulated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India.
DCBR.RCBD.BPD.No.4/19.51.010/2015-16 Keeping in view the various developments over the years, GOI has merged the FIF and FITF to form a single Financial Inclusion Fund. The Reserve Bank of India has finalised the new scope of activities and guidelines for utilisation of the new FIF in consultation with GOI. The new FIF will be administered by the reconstituted Advisory Board constituted by GOI and will be maintained by NABARD.
For the purposes of the proviso to sub-section (1) of section 58 of the Act, where the firm has been converted into limited liability partnership, an intimation of such conversion to the concerned Registrar of Firms shall be given in Form 14 within fifteen days of the date of registration of the Limited Liability Partnership
ORDER NO. 198 OF 2015- In order to address the large pendency before DRPs at Mumbai and Bengaluru, the CBDT has decided to create additional Benches i.e. DRP-3 at Mumbai DRP-2 at Bengaluru until further orders. In pursuance of this, the officers post in the charge of CIT (A) mentioned in Col. 3 of the table below are posted as Members of DRPs mentioned in Col. 2 until further orders:-
Instruction No. 14/2015 while scrutinizing the cases of entities engaged in the business of mining, the Annual Returns filed with IBM by the respective assessees should invariably be obtained and compared with the details submitted to the Income-tax Department so as to ascertain whether any suppression of production and discrepancy in stock exists and further necessary action as per provisions of law may be taken.
Notification No. 19/2015-Service Tax Central Government is satisfied that in the period commencing on and from the 1st day of July, 2012 and ending with the 13th day of October, 2014 (hereinafter referred to as the said period) according to a practice that was generally prevalent, there was nonlevy of service tax on the services provided by an Indian Bank or other entity acting as an agent to the Money Transfer Service Operators (hereinafter referred to as MTSO), in relation to remittance of foreign currency from outside India to India (hereinafter referred to as the said practice), and this service was liable to service tax, which was not being paid according to the said practice.
