Circular No. 617/8/2002-CX I am directed to refer to Central Excise (Removal of Goods at Concessional Rate of Duty for Manufacture of excisable goods) Rules, 2001 and to say that some formations have expressed the difficulty in implementing the said Rules in the following situations stating that there is no corresponding provisions as in the erstwhile Chapter X procedure of the Central Excise Rules
Circular No 616/7/2002-CX In this regard, attention is drawn to judgement dated 3-2-99 of the High Court of Karnataka in Writ Appeal Nos. 1413 and 1736 of 1998 [1999 (111) E.L.T. 27 (Kar.)] in the case of the Karnataka Soapnut Powder Manufacturer”s Association. it has been held, inter alia, by the High Court that the preparation of the Shikakai Powder from Shikakai amounts to manufacture.
Circular No. 1 of 2002-Income Tax Reference is invited to Circular No. 798, dated 30-10-2000 wherein the rates of deduction of income-tax from the payment of income under the head “Salaries” under section 192 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, during the financial year 2000-2001, were intimated.
Notification No. 21-Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by section 295, read with sub-section (4) of section 44AA of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Incometax Rules, 1962
Notification No. 22-Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by section 295 read with clause (2) of section 17 and sub-section (2C) of section 192 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Board of Direct Taxes hereby makes the following rules to further amend the Income-tax Rules, 1962
The Custom Houses may, therefore, clear such goods on a provisional assessment basis under heading 85.04 by taking a simple bond, but without any bank guarantee
G.S.R. 77(E). – In exercise of the powers conferred by section 58A read with section 642 of the Companies Act, 1956 ( 1 of 1956), the Central Government, in consultation with the Reserve Bank of India, hereby makes the following rules further to amend the Companies (Acceptance of Deposits ) Rules, 1975, namely.
Circular No.615/6/2002-CX I am directed to state that it has been brought to the notice of the Board that divergent practice is being adopted by the field formations regarding utilisation of credit of duty paid on molasses for payment of duty on sugar being cleared by the sugar manufacturing units. It has been reported by some of the Commissionerates that molasses is a finished product
After careful consideration of the references in this regard it has been clarified by the Policy Review Committee meeting that in case of Value Based Advance Licence, the import entitlement is with reference to value addition and not minimum value addition as is the case with Quantity Based Advance Licences. Therefore, if a firm fails to achieve declared value addition, the case of the firm has to be regularized as per Policy Circular No.28/2000-2001 dated 22.9.2001.
The matter was deliberated upon in the Policy Review Committee (PRC) on 08.10.2001 wherein the Committee felt that Appendix 39 of the Handbook of Procedures (Vol 1) unmistakenly pertains to exports to Rupee Payment Areas (RPA) and is in no way linked to deemed exports. The PRC also kept in perspective the earlier clarification issued by the Policy Division to the regional offices on the applicability of positive value addition for Advance Licence for deemed exports based on the rationale of inapplicability of Appendix 39 to deemed exports.
