Electronic sealing requirement for bonded warehouses: compliance deadline extended and stakeholders must follow Board circulars.
Electronic sealing for deposit and removal of goods from Customs bonded warehouses is required and stakeholders must strictly follow the Board circulars and this office's public notices; implementation has been extended and any difficulties in adopting the electronic sealing procedure should be reported to the Commissioner's office.

Paperless export processing under eSANCHIT mandated; stakeholders must comply with Board Circular and report implementation issues.
Implementation of paperless export processing via SWIFT uploading of supporting documents (eSANCHIT) is mandated, prescribing eSANCHIT as the channel for transmission and requiring strict compliance with the referenced Board Circular; stakeholders must report implementation difficulties to the Commissioner's office.

Line of credit support: Export financing allowed with majority India-sourced supply, EDF declaration, and specified utilisation controls.
Exim Bank's Government-supported Line of Credit finances export of eligible goods and services for specified maintenance works, requiring a substantial portion of contract value to be supplied from India and permitting limited foreign procurement; shipments must be declared in the Export Declaration Form and agency commission is not payable under the LoC, though exporters may remit commission from own funds or Exchange Earners' Foreign Currency Account subject to realization and bank compliance.

Line of Credit conditions for export financing require majority sourcing from India and EDF shipment declarations.
Exim Bank's Government of India supported Line of Credit to Suriname finances eligible exports for transmission network upgrades, requiring at least 75 per cent of each contract's value to be supplied from India and allowing up to 25 per cent foreign procurement; shipments must be declared in the Export Declaration Form, no agency commission is payable under the LoC though exporters may use own funds or EEFC balances for commission subject to AD Category I compliance, and AD Category I banks must notify exporter constituents of LoC details. Directions issued under FEMA remain without prejudice to other approvals.

Government backed line of credit requires majority Indian content and RBI prescribed export declarations with bank compliance.
Exim Bank's Government of India supported line of credit to Madagascar finances completion of a fertilizer project, requiring at least 75 per cent Indian supplied goods and services, allowing up to 25 per cent foreign procurement, effective October 2018 with a sixty month terminal utilisation period; shipments must be declared in the Export Declaration Form and agency commission is not payable under the LoC though exporters may remit commission from own funds or EEFC balances subject to realisation and AD Category I bank compliance under FEMA directions.

Cancellation of registration applications: process under CBIC Circular procedures and report any implementation difficulties to authorities.
Processing of applications for cancellation of registration submitted in Form GST REG-16 is to follow the procedures in Circular No. 69/43/2018-GST; field offices must process applications per that Circular and report any implementation difficulties to the Commissioner, and trade associations are requested to publicize the Circular among their members for necessary action.

Anti-Dumping Duty on saccharin: import clearances must be accounted and importers notified of pending litigation, as directed.
The trade remedies authority concluded there was no justification to continue the Anti-Dumping Duty on saccharin from China PR, and following a challenge the High Court issued an oral order directing that goods cleared be accounted for and importers be notified of the pending litigation; stakeholders are instructed to follow that direction pending the petition's outcome.

Business Responsibility Reporting format: committee to finalise standards for listed and unlisted companies and submit report.
A Committee chaired by the Joint Secretary, MCA is constituted to finalise the Business Responsibility Reporting (BRR) Format for listed and unlisted companies based on the updated NVGs. Membership includes MCA policy, SEBI, the presidents of ICSI, ICAI and ICoAI, adjunct faculty and DG IICA as special invitee. The Committee must formulate the BRR Format and submit a report within a prescribed short timeframe. ICSI and IICA will provide secretarial and logistical support and, with MCA, technical support. The Committee may invite external experts and meet anywhere in India.

Del credere agent status determines whether credit interest is included in the GST value of supply under valuation rules.
Scope of the principal agent relationship under Schedule I hinges on invoicing: if the supplier issues the invoice the DCA is not an agent, if the DCA issues the invoice in his own name he is an agent. If not an agent, the short term credit extended by the DCA is an independent supply of financial services and interest charged is not part of the value of the supplier's goods. If the DCA is an agent and pays the principal on buyer's behalf, the credit is subsumed into the DCA's supply of goods and interest must be included in the value of those goods under the valuation provisions.

Return of time expired medicines: two GST options-treat as fresh supply with ITC or use credit note with time limit consequences.
Registered persons (other than composition taxpayers) may return time expired goods as a return supply by issuing an invoice and allowing the recipient to claim ITC subject to Section 16; composition taxpayers must issue a bill of supply with no ITC available to the recipient; unregistered persons may use a commercial document without charging tax. Alternatively, suppliers may issue credit notes under Section 34: if within the statutory time limit tax liability can be adjusted provided recipient has not availed or has reversed ITC; if beyond the time limit, adjustment and portal reporting are not permitted. Destruction of returned goods triggers ITC reversal rules specific to the method used.

Advance tax for casual taxable person must be calculated after eligible input tax credit; long exhibitions require normal registration.
Advance tax for registration of a Casual Taxable Person must be calculated after accounting for due eligible input tax credit; long-running exhibitions cannot be treated as casual taxable persons and require normal registration with allotment letter as proof, without advance tax, and surrenderable after the event. If an Input Service Distributor distributes excess credit in contravention of distribution rules, the excess is recoverable from recipient units with interest and penalty, payable voluntarily via FORM GST DRC-03 or recovered through assessment proceedings using FORM GST DRC-07, and the ISD is liable to general penalty.

Refund eligibility: rectified refund applications accepted under original ARN when a deficiency memo is issued, without re credit.
Where a deficiency memo is issued against a refund claim, taxpayers must submit rectified refund applications under the original ARN because the portal does not permit filing a fresh application for the same period; re crediting the electronic credit ledger via FORM GST RFD 01B is not required at present, and authorities will accept the amended application under the earlier ARN, with a separate clarification to follow for cases where re crediting was already performed.

Cancellation of registration: procedural filing in REG-16 triggers acceptance unless incomplete, with final return and tax reversal obligations following.
Cancellation of registration under section 29 and rule 20 is initiated via FORM GST REG-16 with mandatory portal particulars; the proper officer must accept and issue cancellation in FORM GST REG-19 within thirty days except where the application is incomplete or a transferee entity is unregistered, in which case the officer gives seven working days to rectify before approving or rejecting. A final return in FORM GSTR-10 must be filed within three months of cancellation and liabilities under section 29(5) discharged by debiting electronic credit or cash ledger (or paid in cash), with ledger debits not being a prerequisite to filing REG-16.

Principal-agent relationship under GST is extended for del credere agents through administrative circulation of guidance.
Principal and agent relationship under Schedule I of the CGST Act is extended in respect of a Del Credere Agent. The communication forwards the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs circular on this subject and directs that it be brought to the notice of subordinate officers for necessary compliance and communicated to trade organisations. The note serves as an administrative intimation within the GST framework and does not itself create a separate substantive rule beyond circulation of the issued guidance.

Tax collection at source by the Tea Board of India is circulated for compliance and trade communication.
Tax collection at source by the Tea Board of India was circulated for the notice of subordinate officers with directions to ensure necessary compliance and to communicate the guidance to trade organizations. The communication forwarded the central GST circular on the subject and was issued with approval of the Commissioner, Commercial Tax, Uttar Pradesh.

GST corrigendum circulation directs subordinate officers and trade bodies to follow the updated circular guidance.
A corrigendum to Circular No. 57/31/2018 dated 04.09.2018 is forwarded for information and necessary compliance by subordinate officers under the Uttar Pradesh Commercial Tax administration. The communication directs that the corrigendum be brought to the notice of field officers and also communicated to trade organisations at the local level.

Registration verification requires timely scrutiny, mandatory business premises inspection, and app-based reporting to curb misuse and tax evasion.
Registration applications received on the GST portal must be examined by the Assistant Commissioner within 3 working days, with acceptance or issuance of a show cause notice. For registrations issued after 01.11.2018, physical verification of the business premises is mandatory, to be conducted by the Commercial Tax Officer and reviewed by the approving Assistant Commissioner. Verification results, photographs, and records are to be uploaded on the common portal in Form GST REG-30 within the prescribed time. An Android-based application is prescribed for recording premises verification data, and strict compliance is required.

GST refund processing: clarifies invoice submission, ledger debit order, re-credit on rejection and disbursal obligations.
Clarifies GST refund processing: claimants must submit invoice-level details with FORM GST RFD-01A; refundable unutilized ITC is the least of the statutory formula, ledger balance at period end, and ledger balance at filing, and must be debited in order-integrated tax first, then central and state/UT taxes equally with cross-adjustment for shortfalls. Re-crediting on rejection differs where ITC is ineligible (immediate re-credit with demand) versus other reasons (re-credit after undertaking or final adverse appeal decision). Rule 96(10) restricts refunds for direct purchasers/importers benefiting from specified notifications; disbursing authorities must not withhold sanctioned refunds except as statutorily permitted.

Change of address: GST Commissionerate and specified divisions and ranges relocating; stakeholders to note and publicize new premises.
Change of address of the GST Commissionerate, Guwahati and specified Divisions and Ranges is announced, relocating from Sethi Trust Building, Bhangagarh to GST Bhawan, Kedar Road, Machkhowa, effective 15th November, 2018; Federations, Associations and Regional Advisory Committee members are requested to publicize the new address among their members.

Enhanced CRA disclosure requirements mandate detailed analytical, liquidity and transition-rate disclosures to improve investor transparency and monitoring.
SEBI requires CRAs to enhance press releases by expanding the Analytical Approach to disclose parent/group/government support and consolidation details, and to include a dedicated Liquidity section addressing liquid assets, access to credit lines, liquidity coverage and any external support links. CRAs must publish average one year Transition Rates over a multi year period using weighted averages across static pools, submit half yearly data on sharp rating actions for exchange disclosure, and extend half yearly Internal Audit scope to cover transition rate and default rate methodologies.