Instruction No. 2/2012 Section 119 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 – Instructions to subordinate authorities – Condonation of delay in filing return of income under section 119(2)(b) in case of applicants who have made investment in 8% Savings (Taxable) Bonds, 2003 issued by Government of India and opted for scheme of cumulative interest
Under Para 8.2 (c) of Foreign Trade Policy, Capital Goods can be procured indigenously upon invalidating an EPCG Authorization. However, domestically procured Capital Goods cannot be treated as ‘imported Capital Goods’ and hence the facility of Para 5.2A of Foreign Trade Policy cannot be allowed for such Capital Goods sourced domestically after invalidating EPCG Authorization.
Para 5.11.2 of the Hand Book of Procedure Volume – 1 (HBP V-I) permits re-fixation of Annual Average Export Obligation, in case the export in any sector/ product group decline by more than 5%. This implies that for the sector/product group that witnessed such decline in 2010-11 as compared to 2009-10, would be entitled for such relief.
NOTIFICATION F.No.3-1/Amend/Comb. Regl./2012/CD/CCI, dated 23-2-2012 These regulations may be called the Competition Commission of India (Procedure in regard to the transaction of business relating to combinations) Amendment Regulations, 2012. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.
Description of export item at Sl. No 915, Product Code-62 Chemicals of the DEPB Rate Schedule had a typographical error. It was wrongly appearing as Vinyl Oyridine Latex. It is corrected to read as Vinyl Pyridine Latex. There is no other change.
It has been decided to modify Para 5 (e) (ii) of the aforesaid circular, pertaining to ‘Order placement’ as under: (ii) Cumulative orders/ bid quantity information shall be made available online by the exchanges at specific time intervals. The indicative price shall be disclosed by the exchanges only during the last half an hour of the duration of the offer for sale.
Circular No. 05/2012 – Customs – Kind attention is invited to Board’s Circular No. 21/2011-Customs dated 18th April, 2011 regarding Courier Imports and Exports (Electronic Declaration and Processing) Regulations, 2010 framed vide Notification No.36/2010–Customs (N.T.) dated 5.5.2010 as amended vide Notification No.26/2011-Customs (N.T.) dated 1.4.2011, on electronic declaration for assessment and clearance of goods imported or exported under the Courier mode. Further Regulation 12 of the Courier Imports and Exports (Electronic Declaration and Processing) Regulations, 2010 stipulates that an employee of authorized couriers or his employee can file electronic declaration in respect of imported or export goods provided he has passed the examination referred to in regulation 8 or regulation 19 of the Custom House Agents Licensing Regulations (CHALR), 2004.
Made export of wheat free but only through Custom EDI ports. Now export of wheat is also being permitted from non-EDI Land Custom Stations on Bangladesh and Nepal border. The only requirement will be registration of quantity with DGFT.
Made export of non-basmati rice free by the private parties from privately held stocks only through Custom EDI ports. Two changes are being notified now in this notification: (i) State Trading Enterprises (STEs) including M/s. NCCF & NAFED have also been permitted to export privately held stocks of non-basmati rice. (ii) Export of non-basmati rice is also being permitted from non-EDI Land Custom Stations on Bangladesh and Nepal border. The only requirement for export through LCS will be registration of quantity with DGFT.
Circular No. 152/3/2012-ST Service tax is not leviable on toll paid by the users of roads, including those roads constructed by a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) created under an agreement between National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) or a State Authority and the concessionaire (Public Private Partnership Model, Build-Own/Operate-Transfer arrangement). ‘Tolls’ is a matter enumerated (serial number 59) in List-II (State List), in the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution of India and the same is not covered by any of the taxable services at present. Tolls collected under the PPP model by the SPV is collection on own account and not on behalf of the person who has made the land available for construction of the road.
