It has come to the notice of the Board that several Foreign Institutional Investors receiving income from transactions in securities claim such income as exempt from tax under the Income Tax Act, 1961(‘the Act’) by availing benefit provided in the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements(‘DTAAs’) signed between India and their respective countries of residence.
CIRCULAR NO. 1 of 2015-16, Dated: 24/04/2015 The following up-gradations/Changes were made in the existing modules, during the first half of April’2015. 1. Item add link (for dealers): The item add link initially provided to the dealer for online downloading of central forms has been removed. Now, the item can be added through amendment or DP-1 link only.
Press Note No. 4 (2015 Series) Subject: Policy on foreign investment in the Pension Sector- addition of paragraph 6.2.17.9 of ‘Consolidated FDI Policy Circular of 2014-‘
Notification No. 43/2015 – Income Tax S.O. It is hereby notified for general information that the organization Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University Raisan Gandhi Nagar Gujarat, (PAN- AABTP3856A) has been approved by the Central Government for the purpose of clause (ii) of sub-section (1) of section 35 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (said Act), read with Rules 5C and 5E of the Income-tax Rules, 1962 (said Rules), from AY-
Some unlisted companies are luring retail investors by issuing securities including non convertible debentures/ non convertible preference shares in the garb of private placement, without complying with the provisions of Companies Act, 1956 read with the Companies Act, 2013, SEBI (Issue and Listing of Debt Securities), Regulations, 2008 and SEBI (Issue and Listing of Non Convertible Redeemable Preference Shares),Regulations, 2013.
CIRCULAR No. 07/2015 Date- April, 23, 2015 The Central Board of Direct Taxes (the Board) had earlier issued Circular No. 4/2002 dated 16.07.2002 which laid down that in case of such entities, whose income is unconditionally exempted under Section 10 of the Income-tax Act (the Act) and who are statutorily not required to file return of income as per Section 139 of the Act, there would be no requirement for tax deduction at source (TDS) from the payments made to them since their income is anyway exempted under the Act.
Central Government hereby establishes a Tribunal Consisting of the following persons to decide the disputes arising under Section 10 A of the Act in the matter of election to the Council of the institute of Company Secretaries of India held in December,2014, namely
entral Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Company Secretaries (Procedure of Investigations of Professional and Other Misconduct and Conduct of Cases) Rules, 2007, namely:—
Banks are hereby advised that, as a prudent operational risk management measure, it is imperative that employees posted in sensitive positions or areas of operations (viz., treasury, currency chests, risk modelling, model validation, etc.) are covered under a ‘Mandatory Leave’ policy wherein such employees are required to compulsorily avail of leave for a few days (say 10 working days) in a single spell every year,
Therefore, in partial modification of our aforementioned Circular dated December 22, 2001, we advise that while disseminating information to Credit Information Companies on borrowers with outstanding amount aggregating Rs. 1 crore and above classified as doubtful or loss assets (non-suit filed as well as suit filed accounts), banks/FIs should exclude the names of non-whole time directors (Nominee and Independent Directors) other than the promoter directors from the list, except in the rarest circumstances specified in paragraph 3 above.
