As per the amended Rule 7, with effect from 1st October 2011, every service tax assessee is required to file half yearly return only electronically. A service tax assessee can file return electronically by accessing ACES Web Portal www.aces.gov.in. The said website has hosted LMS (Learning Management System) on the home page. The broad features are given below:-
DGFT Trade Notice No. 20, Attention is invited to Public Notice Nos. 67/2009-2014 (RE 2010) and 68/2009-2014 (RE 2010) restoring the DEPB benefit on export of “Cotton yarn including Melange yarn” and “Cotton”. During the period from 21.4.2010 to 04.08.2011, DEPB was not available on export of “Cotton yarn including Melange yarn” and on export of “Cotton” from 21.04.2010 to 04.08.2011.
Attention is invited to Policy Circular No. 27 dated 01.04.2011 which stipulates conditions and modalities for registration of contracts of cotton yarn with DGFT. Para 4 of this Policy Circular deals with the consequences of failure to export the allowed quantity within stipulated time.
In Trade Notice number 16 issued on 17th August 2011, allocation of 5 lakh MT of rough marble blocks has been made to 397 applicants for ITC HS codes 25151100 and 25151210 as indicated in Notification number 64 of 4th August 2011 . RA’s may scrutinize the ITC HS codes, IE codes etc in the allocation made on 17th August 2011, for any typographical error/ or any error of clerical/ editorial nature, which may be appropriately corrected based upon actual scrutiny of documents submitted by allottees and documentary evidence so produced during such scrutiny. Trade Notice No. 18, dated 24th August, 2011
Trade Notice No. 17 dated 23rd August, 2011 All Export Promotion Councils / Commodity Boards / Authorities are aware that an ‘on-line ‘ uploading facility of RCMC has been initiated in DGFT since August, 2010.2. The purpose of uploading the RCMC data on DGFT’s server is to reduce Transaction Cost for exporters as this would avoid submission of copy of RCMC by exporters every time under various applications filed by them.
The Regional Authorities of DGFT shall carefully scrutinize the documents submitted, as prescribed in Notification No.64 dated 4.8.201. In case any applicant/firm is found to have submitted false or erroneous information or have made any misdeclaration/misrepresentation, such applicant / firm (a) shall forfeit the allocation made in this Trade Notice, (b) shall be debarred from allocation of marble in future and (c) shall be liable for penal action under the provisions of Foreign Trade (D&R) Act, 1992, as amended. Only one licence per IEC holder is to be issued by the RA.
Trade Notice 15 dated 10th August, 2011 In this Trade Notice (para 4) it was provided that the concerned exporters may approach the RC issuing Authorities within 3 days alongwith all necessary documents for rectification of error if any. The concerned RAs would verify the documents and do rectification if required. After issue of Trade Notice No. 11 of 29.06.2011, many exporters have submitted the documents with RC issuing authorities. These have been verified. After verification, 61 firms have not been found to have defaulted. Accordingly their names have been removed from the list. The list of remaining defaulters is annexed with this Trade Notice.
Division Bench of the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi (Justice S.K. Kaul and Justice Rajiv Shakdher) in their interim order in Writ Petition No. 5237/2011 Kannu Aditya (India) Ltd. Vs. Union of India, made on 26th July, 2011 have ordered: It is directed that no allotment shall be made till the next date of hearing.
DGFT has published the list of successful allottees for allocation of 10,00,000 MTs of non-Basmati rice for exports as notified in Notification No. 60 dated 19.07.2011 along with the 1st waiting list. The document submission, scrutiny and issue of registration certificates by the Regional Authorities of DGFT / DGFT(Head Quarters) (depending upon the choice of the allottees) would commence at 1000 Hrs on Thursday 28.07.2011 and will close at 1700 Hrs. on Thursday 18.08.2011, as mentioned in the Notification No. 60 dated 19.07.2011 subject to conditions mentioned therein.
Had stated that the declaration of allocation of quantities against the applications received from 20.06.2011 to 25.06.2011 will be made on 06.07.2011. In response to this PN a total of 581 applications were received by e-mail. Some applicant had sent more than one e-mail. Some e-mails have been received from applicants who did not have any export performance in either of the past two cotton years. Some applicants had been defaulters. If all these applications are not counted then the number of eligible applicants come to 227.
