Vide Notification No.15/2012-Service Tax dated 17.03.2012, the Ministry of Finance had specified that in respect of services provided by an individual advocate, Goods Transport Agency, Insurance Agent, services provided or agreed to be provided by way of sponsorship to any business entity, in respect of services provided or agreed to be provided by an arbitral tribunal etc, the service-tax payable shall be Nil and that the person receiving the service shall pay 100% of the tax. This Notification is to come into force from the date on which section 66B of the Finance Act, 1994 comes into effect. S. 66B of the Finance Act, 1994 has been inserted by clause 143 (F) of the Finance Bill 2012. Vide Notification No. 19/2012 dated 5.6.2012, 1.7.2012 has been appointed as the date on which s. 143(F) of the Finance Act 2012 shall come into force. The result is that Notification No. No.15/2012-Service Tax dated 17.3.2012 shall come into effect on 1.7.2012.
The Company Secretaries (Amendment) Regulations, 2012 (Published in the Gazette of India Extraordinary, Part III, Section 4 Dated June 04, 12 vide Notification No. 710/1(M)/2 dated 04.06.12)
General Circular No. 12/2012 Ministry of Corporate Affairs vide no. 52/26/CAB-2010 dated 2nd May, 2011 had directed that every company to which any of the following rules apply, and wherein, the aggregate value of net worth as on the last date of the immediately preceding financial year exceeds five crore of rupees; or wherein the aggregate value of the turnover made by the company from sale or supply of all products or activities during the immediately preceding financial year exceeds twenty crore of rupees;
Notification No. 31/2012-Customs (ADD) Whereas in the matter of import of Digital Offset Printing Plates (herein after referred to as the subject goods), originating in or exported from Peoples’ Republic of China (China PR) and Japan (hereinafter referred to as the subject countries) and imported into India, the designated authority, vide its preliminary findings F.No. 14/7/2011-DGAD, dated the 16th March, 2012, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 16th March, 2012, had come to the conclusion that –
(c) assessing authority means any authority competent to assess or audit or exercise or perform all or any of the powers and functions conferred on, or assigned, under this Act or as the case may be, has been delegated by the Commissioner and within whose jurisdiction the place of business or, as the case may be, the principal place of business of the dealer, is situated
Notification No. 18/2012-Service Tax The following sections will become ineffective from 1st day of June, 2012 1. Section 65 – Definition of Taxable Service 2. Section 65A – Classification of Taxable service 3. Section 66 -Charge of Section Tax 4. Section 66A – Charge of Service Tax on Services received from outside India
Vide this Office advertisement dated 05/05/2012; applications were invited from Advocates for empanelment as Senior and Junior Standing Counsels to represent the Income Tax Department before the Hon’ble Madras High Court and other judicial forums. The last date for submission of the application was given in the advertisement as 18/05/2012. Now, the last date for submission of application is extended up to 15th June 2012. The eligibility criteria, procedure for application and selection and the fees payable are prescribed vide the CBDT’s Instruction No.3/2012 dated 11/04/2012.
Notification No. 47/2012 – Customs (N. T.), Dated- 31st of May, 2012 S.O. … (E).– 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 notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 36/2001-Customs (N.T.), dated the 3rd August, 2001, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section-3, Sub-section (ii), vide number S. O. 748 (E), dated the 3rd August, 2001, namely:-
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 642 of the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Companies (Central Government’s) General Rules and Forms, 1956, namely: –1. (1) These rules may be called the Companies (Central Government’s) General Rules and Forms (Amendment) Rules, 2012.
In the Tamil Nadu Value Added Tax Act, 2006, after section 63, the following section shall be inserted, namely:—63-A. Accounts to be audited in certain cases.—(1) Every registered dealer whose total turnover including zero-rate sale and sale in the course of inter-State trade or commerce as specified in section 3 of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 (Central Act 74 of 1956) in a year, exceeds one crore rupees, shall get his accounts in respect of that year, audited by an Accountant and submit a report of such audit in the prescribed Form, duly signed and verified by the Accountant, to the Assessing authority, within such period as may be prescribed.
