Trade Notice No. 14/2009 Prior to 01.04.2008 [before the amendment in Rule 6(3)] the option available to the taxpayer, under Rule 6(3), was that, he was allowed to utilize credit only to the extent of an amount not exceeding 20% of the amount of service tax payable on taxable output service. However, there was no restriction in taking CENVAT credit and also there was no provision about the periodic lapse of balance credit. This resulted in accumulation of credit in many cases.
Trade Notice No. 13/2009 Issues relating to taxable services provided during the course of production of alcoholic beverages (such as Indian Made Foreign Liquors, Branded Country liquors and similar products) are matters of dispute for a considerable period. In this regard, a draft circular of Central Board of Excise & Customs in F.No.249/1/2006-CX.9 dated November, 2006 (on applicability of service tax on taxable services provided in certain cases during the course of production of alcoholic beverages) was placed on the official website for eliciting responses from the stakeholders. The responses received from various stakeholders were carefully examined.
The Working Group on Central Excise and Service Tax re-engineering, constituted by the Board has prepared a Return Scrutiny Manual for Service Tax (RSMST). The said manual has been approved by the Board and a copy of the same is enclosed herewith. Circular No.113/07/2009-ST dated the 23rd April, 2009.
For the purposes of this notification, ‘rate of exchange’ applicable for the purposes of calculation of anti-dumping duty shall be the rate which is specified in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), issued from time to time, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) and the relevant date for determination of the rate of exchange shall be the date of presentation of the bill of entry under section 46 of the said Customs Act.
herefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 11-I of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government hereby specifies the goods in the said Schedule as the goods in respect of which special measures for the purpose of checking their illegal export and facilitating the detection of the said goods, which are likely to be illegally exported, shall be taken in the areas specified in India’s land border with Myanmar falling within the territories of Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh in terms of the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) Number 318-B/1986-Customs, dated the 14th May, 1986 and Number 24/1988-Customs(N.T.), dated the 15th April, 1988.
Further, it may be noted that in terms of Regulation 2 of Notification No. FEMA 20/2000-RB dated May 3, 2000, as amended from time to time, “preference shares” mean compulsorily and mandatorily convertible preference shares and “debenture” means compulsorily and mandatorily convertible debentures.
In exercise of powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development and Regulation) Act, 1992 read with paragraph 2.1 of the Foreign Trade Policy – 2004-09, the Central Government hereby amends Schedule – I (Imports) of the ITC (HS) Classifications of Export and Import Items, 2004-09.
The principal notification No. 49/2005-Customs (N.T.), dated the 17th June,2005 was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section(i) vide number G.S.R. 410(E) dated the 17th June,2005 and was subsequently amended by Notification No.63/2006- Customs (N.T.), dated the 9th June, 2006 vide number G.S.R. 356(E), published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section(i), dated the 9th June, 2006. It was subsequently amended by Notification No.42/2008- Customs (N.T.), dated the 12th May,2008 vide number G.S.R371(E), published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section(i), dated the 12th May,2008.
In the said notification, in the Table, against Sl. No. 2 in Column (3), for the words Chandigarh and Jalandhar wherever they occur, the words and figures Chandigarh-I and Chandigarh-II shall respectively be substituted.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1B) of section 35B of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (1 of 1944), the Central Board of Excise and Customs hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue No. 25/2005-Central Excise (N.T),.
