Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby specifies the following conditions, safeguards and procedures for issue of invoices, preserving records in electronic form and authentication of records and invoices by digital signatures, namely:- 1. Every assessee proposing to use digital signature shall use Class 2 or Class 3 Digital Signature Certificate duly issued by the
Circular No. 13 of 2015 If firm has undisclosed foreign assets, can the partner file declaration in respect of such asset? Answer: The declaration can be made by the firm which shall be signed by the person specified in sub-section (2) of section 62 of the Act. The partner cannot make a declaration in his name. However, the partner may file a declaration in respect of an undisclosed asset held by him.
Every assessee proposing to use digital signatures shall intimate the details such as name, e-mail id, office address and designation of the person authorized to use the digital signature certificate, name of the Certifying Authority, date of issue of Digital Certificate and validity of the digital signature etc., to the jurisdictional Deputy Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner of Central Excise at least 15 days in advance.
It has been noted that despite several instructions on the subject, necessary due diligence and caution is not being exercised while granting authorization for filing of appeals. Several court decisions have been noted where courts have taken an adverse view against the Department. A few such decisions are:
(A) Work Jurisdiction of CIT (J) The CIT (J) shall be the nodal office for all matters, including but not limited to those mentioned in Part (C) below, relating to the jurisdictional High Court as also co-ordination with counterparts for other High Court/s. He shall be responsible for ensuring that the Departmental view regarding the interpretation of the Income-tax Act, 1961 is enforced uniformly and coherently within the jurisdiction of the respective Region.
In terms of the above regulations foreign direct investment is prohibited in manufacturing of cigars, cheroots, cigarillos and cigarettes, of tobacco or of tobacco substitutes. It is clarified that the prohibition applies only to manufacturing of the products mentioned therein and foreign direct investment in other activities relating to these products including wholesale cash and carry, retail trading etc. shall be governed by the sectoral restrictions laid down in the FDI policy
All the PSIA listed in Appendix 2G are allowed time upto 31.07.2015 to submit Bank Guarantee as prescribed in Public Notice 21 dated 23.06.2015 read with Public Notice No. 19 dated 05.06.2015.
Central Government hereby makes the following Scheme further to amend the Employees’ Provident Funds Scheme, 1952, namely :- 1. (1) This Scheme may be called the Employees’ Provident Funds (Amendment) Scheme, 2015.
Keeping in view the importance of credit discipline, especially for reduction in NPA level in banks, banks are advised to make use of the information available in CRILC and not limit their due diligence to seeking NOC from the bank with whom the customer is supposed to be enjoying the credit facilities as per his declaration.
Notification No. 66/2015 – Customs (N.T.) Dated the 2nd July, 2015 Central Board of Excise & Customs hereby determines that the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currencies specified in column (2) of each of Schedule I and Schedule II annexed hereto, into Indian currency or vice versa, shall, with effect from 3rd July, 2015,
