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'Old interest rates apply for failure to pay service tax in Dec 2015'

New notification changes interest prospectively and will not apply to omission to pay service tax before May 14, 2016

Seeing some reason after much time

CBEC justified this on the ground that mere filing of an appeal does not operate as a stay or suspension of the order appealed against

Opening of the door over these 25 years

'Merchant exporter's name must be mentioned in shipping bill'

Some suggestions regarding SEIS

Uncertain liberalising in a changing world

Exports are going down for the past 18 months and, despite imports also going down, the number of protectionist measures like anti-dumping duties, safeguard duties, etc, have gone up

'Duty-paid goods can be brought to factory; cenvat credit allowed'

Remission of duty allowed when goods are claimed by manufacturer as unfit for consumption or for marketing

Indirect tax row needs resolution

'If Indian firm reimburses parent entity abroad, no service tax due'

Some rules change at bonded warehouses

Sensitive goods will only be allowed to be brought into or taken out of a special warehouse with the permission and in the presence of the bond officers

This minister hasn't been up to the job

The test of good governance is whether exporters perceive a proper difference while receiving govt services at the operating levels

A halfway house is better than none

An idea whose time has come

'Tax is payable on service provided by Indian entity to foreign affiliate'

Cold comfort for exporters

Many exporters doing projects abroad find the retention money comes in quite late

New rule applies on service tax

What RBI could do to help exporters

'Importers can avail of customs duty exemption and concessional CVD'

'Related party transactions above Rs 20 cr subject to transfer pricing law'

On what the threshold limit for such transactions to be covered under domestic transfer pricing is

Recourse options in valuation rules

The law requires the officer who doubts the truth or accuracy of the declared value to inform the importer of the grounds for doing so. At the importer's request, this information must be given in wri