Under the overall guidance of the Board for Payment and Settlement Systems, the Reserve Bank over the last few years, has been taking a number of steps to popularise the electronic payment systems in the country. In this connection, a reference is invited to circular DPSS.CO.OD.494/04.04.009/2011-2012 dated September 21, 2011, in terms of which, liberalised revised access criteria for centralised and decentralised payment systems were announced.
In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-rule (1) of rule 5A of the Companies (Central Government’s) General Rules and Forms, 1956, the Central Government hereby appoints the Assistant Commissioner of Income-tax, Guwahati, as the prescribed authority for the purposes of clause (a) of sub-section (IA) of Section 108 of the Companies Act, 1956 (I of 1956).
With effect from 1st April 2012, amends the Notification No. JC(HQ)1/ VAT/2005/97, dated 29th August 2005, as follows, namely :— In the Schedule appended to the said notification at Serial No. 1, in column (3), for the words four percent the words five percent shall be substituted.
RBI Circular No. DGBA.CDD. No. H- 6506 The Government of India have vide their Office Memorandum (OM) No. 6-1/2011-NS.II (Pt.) dated March 26, 2012, advised the rate of interest on various small savings schemes for the financial year 2012-13. Accordingly, the rates of interest on PPF, 1968 and SCSS, 2004 for the financial year 2012-13 effective from April 01, 2012, on the basis of the interest compounding/payment built-in in the schemes, will be as under:
In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 5 of the Foreign Trade (Development & Regulation) Act, 1992 (No.22 of 1992) read with Para 2.1 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2009-2014, the Central Government hereby makes the following amendment, with immediate effect, in Notification No. 61(RE-2010)/2009-14 dated 20.07.2011.2.
60. Sale of edible oil and oil cake manufactured and sold by the Tel Ghani Units registered under the Khadi and Village Industries Commission Act, 1956 or as the case may be with the Khadi and Village Industries Board constituted under the Bombay Khadi and Village Industries Act, 1960 for a turnover not exceeding rupees twenty lakh in a financial year.
These rules may be called the Maharashtra Value Added Tax (Second Amendment) Rules, 2012. 2. In rule 53 of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Rules,2005, in sub-rule (3), (1) in clause (a), for the words, brackets and figures the amount calculated at the rate notified from time to time, by the Central Government for the purposes of sub-section (1) of section 8 of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 the words four per cent shall be substituted with effect from the 1st April 2012;
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 12/2012-Customs, dated the 17th March, 2012, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 185(E) dated the 17th March, 2012, namely :-
Notification No. 22/2012-Central Excise Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 18/2012-Central Excise, dated the 17th March, 2012, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R 169 (E), dated the 17th March, 2012, namely:-
Central Government, being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 12/2012-Central Excise, dated the 17th March, 2012, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R 163 (E), dated the 17th March, 2012, namely:-
