The Central Board of Direct Taxes has issued a Circular bearing number 30/2016 on 26th August, 2016 for the purpose of streamlining the process of issue of No Objection Certificate (NOC), Port Clearance Certificate (PCC), Voyage Return and Voyage Assessment in case of Foreign Shipping Companies (FSCs).
Stakeholders have highlighted several difficulties in following the provision for closure of financial accounts. In view of the same, India and the United States are discussing the alternative procedures under paragraph G of Section VI of Annex I with a view towards adjusting them to permit a few month extension of time for completing the due diligence and not requiring account closure within one year of entry into force of the agreement (i.e., August 31, 2016).
It has come to the notice of SEBI that various entities are soliciting investors by offering leagues/schemes/competitions etc. related to securities markets. Some of the schemes may involve distribution of prize monies. Participation in such schemes including sharing of confidential and personal trading data is at investors’ own risk, cost and consequences as such schemes are neither approved nor endorsed by SEBI / SEBI recognized Exchange(s).
On the basis of an assessment of the current and evolving macroeconomic situation, it has been decided to: keep the policy repo rate under the liquidity adjustment facility (LAF) unchanged at 6.5 per cent; keep the cash reserve ratio (CRR) of scheduled banks unchanged at 4.0 per cent of net demand and time liabilities (NDTL); and
The facility of e-verification of IT returns has been used by over 75.3 Lakh taxpayers till 5th August, 2016 as compared to 32.95 Lakh taxpayers last year till 7th September 2015. Of these Aadhar based E- verification was used by 17.68 lakh taxpayers during the current year as against 10.41 lakh taxpayers during the same period in 2015-16.
Initiating quick follow up and taking cases to logical conclusion by punishing the guilty is paramount to deter entities in future from carrying out unlawful activity. I hope ‘Sachet’ would help regulators in doing this as much as it would help members of public in depositing their hard earned money with genuine entities by giving them timely information about these entities.
In the interest of investors it has been decided that the above mentioned documents shall be provided to clients in vernacular languages. In this regard, SEBI has advised stock exchanges having nationwide terminals to provide the above said documents in 15 vernacular languages viz. Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu
Some of the key aspects of the Guidelines include: (i) resident individuals and professionals having 10 years of experience in banking and finance at a senior level are also eligible to promote universal banks; (ii) large industrial houses are excluded as eligible entities but are permitted to invest in the banks up to 10 per cent
In the Joint Meeting of the Honourable the Acting Chief Justice and the Committee to formulate Code for the Press and Electronic Media in relation to Reporting of Court Proceedings in the High Court of Kerala, it was noted that there is need to make public the fact that there is no ban imposed on the Journalists from attending and reporting Court Proceedings.
Under section 115QA of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (the Act), additional Income-tax at the rate of 20 percent is levied on the distributed income arising out of buy back of unlisted share by the company. The distributed income was defined to be the consideration paid by the company on buy back of shares as reduced by the amount which was received by the company for issue of such shares.
