PRESS RELEASE As a taxpayer friendly initiative, the Department has decided to set up Tax Kiosks at various places within CCIT regions. The Tax Kiosk would be a temporary structure set up for 1-2 days in a residential area such as apartment blocks in association with RWAs, large offices and other central locations of the cities.
Government Securities -i) The limit of USD 15 billion for FII investment in Government securities stands enhanced with immediate effect by USD 5 billion to USD 20 billion. It has also been decided to rationalize the conditions governing the investments under this scheme by making the residual maturity of the instrument at the time of first purchase by FIIs and SEBI registered eligible non- resident investors in IDFs and foreign Central Banks to be at least three years for a sublimit of USD 10 billion. Accordingly, the existing and new sub limits and attendant conditions are summarized as follows :
it has been decided to allow Indian companies to avail of ECBs for repayment of Rupee loan(s) availed of from the domestic banking system and / or for fresh Rupee capital expenditure, under the approval route, subject to them satisfying the following conditions:- Only companies in the manufacturing and infrastructure sector will be eligible to avail of such ECBs; Such companies shall be a consistent foreign exchange earner during the past three financial years; Such companies are not in the default list/caution list of the Reserve Bank of India; and Such ECBs shall only be utilized for repayment of the Rupee loan(s) availed of for ‘capital expenditure’ incurred earlier and are still outstanding in the books of the domestic banking system and / or for fresh Rupee capital expenditure.
Various companies, and professionals such as Cost Accountants, Chartered Accountants, & Company Secretaries, and other stakeholders from corporate sector are connected with the usage of product group classification. All are welcome to examine the draft and furnish comments/suggestions to this Ministry within a period of three weeks i.e. by 15th July, 2012 through email on the following e-mail address: –
SEBI vide circular no CIR/MRD/DMS/12/2012 dated April 13, 2012 had issued broad guidelines for Business Continuity Plan and Disaster Recovery for Stock Exchanges and Depositories. 2. In this regard, Stock Exchanges and Depositories have sought guidance and clarifications regarding some of the provisions of the circular.
Reserve Bank, vide it’s circular No.FMD.MSRG.No.67/02.05.002/2011-12 dated March 9, 2012, had advised that all inter-bank OTC foreign exchange derivatives transactions should be reported on a platform to be developed by the CCIL. The CCIL has since completed development of the platform for reporting of USD-INR forwards, FX swaps and FCY-INR options. It has been decided that the platform should be operationalised with effect from July 9, 2012. The salient features of the reporting requirement are as under.
Notification No. 42 /2012-Customs Seeks to amend Notfns.100/2009-Cus, 101/2009-Cus, 102/2009-Cus and 103/2009-Cus all dt.11-09-2009 and 104/2009-Cus dt.14-09-2009
Notification No. 53/ 2012-Customs- (N.T.) In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (34) of section 2 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Board of Excise and Customs, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby directs that each of the notifications of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), specified in column (2) of the Table below, shall be amended, in the manner specified in the corresponding entry in column (3) of the said Table, namely:-
Section 285 of Income-tax Act and Rule 114DA of Income-tax Rules read with Circular No. 5 of 2012, dated 6-2-2012, prescribes that a specified categories of assessees having a (Liaison Office in India shall electronically file Form 49C, within 60 days from the end of financial year. The due date for filing Form 49C for the financial year 2011-12 was prescribed as 30th May, 2012.
No Input Tax Credit claim shall be allowed unless the corresponding tax is paid by the selling dealer into the Government treasury. In the case of mismatch in the sales and purchases in electronic matching of annexure Jl and J2 of form 704, then to the extent of unmatched amount of tax, the ITC of the claimant dealer shall be denied.ITC claim shall not be allowed if the purchases are effected from hawala dealer and even though such hawala dealer has paid the taxes partially or fully as these are not genuine transactions.
