Order No. 5/FT&TR/2012 In partial modification of Order No. 4/FT&TR/2012, and in exercise of powers conferred under section 144C of the income-tax Act, 1961, the Board hereby reconstitutes the Dispute Resolution Panel (DRP) comprising of three Commissioners of Income-tax/Directors of Income-tax as Members of DRP at the places given below, who shall perform such duties. In addition to their regular duties with immediate effect and until further order:
SEBI, is in the process of formulating the following:- a. Minimum listing standards:- SEBI shall separately prescribe minimum listing standards for listing of companies on stock exchanges. However, the stock exchanges can prescribe more stringent norms, if they so desire.
As per extant guidelines, banks are permitted to undertake ‘notional’ short sale whereby they can sell a security short from HFT portfolio even if the security is held under their AFS/HTM portfolio (circular RBI/2006-07/243 dated January 31, 2007). In view of the various scenarios under which a participant may end up with simultaneous ‘long’ and ‘short’ position in specific securities in the HFT portfolio
Notification No.52/2012 – Customs (N.T.) 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 22nd June, 2012 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.
Imposing fees on certain e-forms filed with ROC, RD or MCA (HQ) under MCA-21 where at present no fee is prescribed – General Circular No. 14/2012, dated 21-6-2012 – The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has decided that fees shall be applicable on the following forms at the rates indicated in the table below:-
Notification No. 40/2012-Service Tax- Govt exempts the services on which service tax is leviable under section 66B of the said Act, received by a unit located in a Special Economic Zone (hereinafter referred to as SEZ) or Developer of SEZ and used for the authorised operations, from the whole of the service tax, education cess and secondary and higher education cess leviable thereon.
Notification No.39/2012 – Service Tax Central Government hereby directs that there shall be granted rebate of the whole of the duty paid on excisable inputs or the whole of the service tax and cess paid on all input services (herein after referred to as ‘input services’), used in providing service exported in terms of rule 6A of the said rules, to any country other than Nepal and Bhutan, subject to the conditions, limitations and procedures specified hereinafter,-
Notification No. 38/2012-Service Tax – Following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No.28/2011-Service Tax, dated the 1st April, 2011, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 293(E), dated the 1st April, 2011, namely:-
Notification No. 37/2012 – Service Tax Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Point of Taxation Rules, 2011, namely:— 1. (a) These rules may be called the Point of Taxation (Amendment) Rules, 2012. (b) They shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 2012.
Notification No. 36/2012- Service Tax entral Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Service Tax Rules, 1994, namely:— 1. (1) These rules may be called the Service Tax (Second Amendment) Rules, 2012. (2) They shall come into force on the 1st day of July, 2012.