In its latest judgment, the Supreme Court has held that the transaction charges paid to the Bombay Stock Exchange by its members are not for ‘technical services’ and hence no TDS on such payments is deductible under Section 194J of the Income Tax Act 1961. Case Details: Civil Appeal No. 3141 …

Circular No 191/01/2016 -Service Tax F.No. 137/ 155/2012-Service Tax  (Pt -II) Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Excise & Customs Service Tax Wing *** New Delhi, the 29th March 2016 To The Principal Chief Commissioners/Chief Commissioners of Central Excise and Service Tax (All), …

Organizational Restructuring of EPFO Approved to Address Career Progression of Over 20000 Officials Inoperative EPF Accounts that Stopped Earning Interest in 2011, Now to Earn Interest W.E.F. 01.04.2016 Software Module for Disbursal of Salaries to EPFO Launched EPFO’s highest decision making body, the Central Board of Trustees met …

Employee Provident Fund Organization, India PRESS RELEASE 11.03.2016 EPFO launches an Incentive Scheme for employers to encourage partnership in allotment of Universal Account Number (UAN) to their employees. Employers can get refund upto 10% of administrative charges payable to EPFO under a new incentive scheme. EPFO, Head Office, …

RBI cancels Certificate of Registration of 22 NBFCs Dated: 29-03-2016 The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has cancelled the certificate of registration of the 22 (twenty two) non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) as shown in Annex, in exercise of the powers conferred on it under Section 45-IA (6) of …

Government of India Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes PRESS RELEASE New Delhi, 29th March, 2016 Sub: Signing of 11 unilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (APAs)- regarding. The Advance Pricing Agreement (APA) programme was introduced by the Finance Act, 2012 to provide a predictable …