Deductibility for charitable donations affirmed where payments to approved relief funds, even if CSR-driven, qualify under the donation deduction sche...
Mis-declaration in import descriptions must be deliberate to justify confiscation; withheld contemporaneous import documents invalidate value redeterm...
Liability for EPCG export shortfall: duty and interest sustained, but confiscation and penalties quashed where no fraud and causes beyond importer con...
Amendments revise the Borrowing and Lending Regulations to redefine key terms, introduce explicit end-use restrictions (prohibiting funds for chit funds, nidhi companies, specified real estate uses, most agricultural activities, TDR trading, securities trading except strategic corporate actions, repayment of certain domestic INR loans, and prohibited on lending) and update the External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) framework. The ECB framework clarifies eligible borrowers and lenders, currency and form flexibility, borrowing limits, minimum average maturity period requirements, cost and security provisions, conversion to non debt instruments, refinancing rules, reporting obligations including Loan Registration Number procedures and treatment of untraceable borrowers, and related prudential and disclosure conditions.
Amendments revise the Borrowing and Lending Regulations to redefine key terms, introduce explicit end-use restrictions (prohibiting funds for chit funds, nidhi companies, specified real estate uses, most agricultural activities, TDR trading, securities trading except strategic corporate actions, repayment of certain domestic INR loans, and prohibited on lending) and update the External Commercial Borrowing (ECB) framework. The ECB framework clarifies eligible borrowers and lenders, currency and form flexibility, borrowing limits, minimum average maturity period requirements, cost and security provisions, conversion to non debt instruments, refinancing rules, reporting obligations including Loan Registration Number procedures and treatment of untraceable borrowers, and related prudential and disclosure conditions.
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