SEBI (Employee Stock Option Scheme and Employee Stock Purchase Scheme) Guidelines, 1999 (“SEBI (ESOS & ESPS) Guidelines”) were issued to enable listed entities to reward their employees through stock option schemes and stock purchase schemes and to ensure that such schemes introduced by the companies are within the regulated framework.
During the compounding process, on a number of occasions, it has been brought to our notice by the applicants that the contraventions of the provisions of FEMA by corporates and individuals are due to the acts of omission and commission of the Authorised Dealers and some of the applicants have also produced documentary evidence in support of their claim. Such contraventions being dealt with by the Reserve Bank mainly relate to:
Notification No. 05/2013-Customs (N.T.) – DATED THE 17th January, 2013 Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby determines that the rate of exchange of conversion of each of the foreign currency specified in column (2) of each of Schedule I and Schedule II annexed hereto into Indian currency or vice versa shall, with effect from 18th January, 2013 be the rate mentioned against it in the corresponding entry in column (3) thereof, for the purpose of the said section, relating to imported and export goods.
With reference to above, the dealers who are required to file audit report u/s 61 of MVAT Act, 2002 for the financial year 2011-2012, besides filing the audit report, should also furnish following documents. i. A statement of submission of Audit Report in the format given in the circular 27 T of 2009
Notification No. 3/2013 – Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (2) of section 200A of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following scheme for centralised processing of statements of tax deducted at source, namely:-
In continuation of the Ministry’s General Circular Nos: 16/2012 dated 06.07.2012, 34/2012 dated 25.10.2012 and 39/2012 dated 12.12.2012 on the subject cited above, it is stated that the time limit to file the financial statements in the XBRL mode without any additional fee/penalty has been extended up to 15th February 2013 or within 30 days from the due date of AGM of the company, whichever is later.
The undersigned is directed to refer to Ministry’s letter F.No. 497/57/87-Cus-VI, dated 05.01.1998 whereby it was clarified firearms imported as baggage are not allowed to be transferred to any person for consideration or otherwise during the lifetime of the importer and to state that this issue has been re-examined in the context of a reference requesting permission to dispose an imported firearm on ground of old age.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (2) and (3) of section 75 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), sub-sections (2) and (2A) of section 37 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), section 93A and sub-sections (2) and (3) of section
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
A number of countries have provided for General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR) in matters relating to taxation. While tax mitigation is recognized, tax avoidance is frowned upon. International literature describes tax avoidance as the legal exploitation of tax laws to one’s own advantage and an arrangement entered into solely or primarily for the purpose of obtaining a tax advantage.
