Appointment of Customs officers: DGCEI ranks equated to Customs ranks, conferring jurisdictional authority nationwide.
Appoints officers of the Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence as officers of Customs by equating DGCEI ranks to corresponding Customs ranks and conferring jurisdictional authority; the Central Board supersedes the earlier 2009 notification while preserving prior actions, and the appointments take effect from the notified commencement date.

Jurisdiction of Commissioners of Customs (Appeals) specified, assigning appellate authority over subordinate customs officers and offices.
This notification appoints specified Commissioners of Customs (Appeals) and assigns to each the appellate jurisdiction over orders and decisions of particular subordinate customs officers and units as enumerated in the Table; it supersedes the prior notification and specifies its date of commencement, with a subsequent insertion adding preventive commissioners to the Delhi entry.

Jurisdictional appointment of customs commissioners establishes territorial administrative control and reporting lines for customs operations.
The Central Board of Excise and Customs appoints specified officers as Principal Commissioners/Commissioners, Additional or Joint Commissioners and Deputy or Assistant Commissioners of Customs, and assigns them to discrete territorial and functional zones (ports, airports, ICDs, SEZs, districts, states and designated maritime areas). For each zone the Additional/Joint Commissioners and Deputy/Assistant Commissioners are declared to work under the control of the named Commissioner or Principal Commissioner, establishing supervisory and reporting relationships. The notification supersedes an earlier notification and sets an operative commencement date.

Jurisdictional appointments for customs define Chief Commissioners' territorial oversight and associated appellate alignments nationwide.
Appointment and territorial allocation of Chief Commissioners and Principal Chief Commissioners to exercise jurisdiction over specified Commissioners and Principal Commissioners across ports, airports, air cargo complexes, inland container depots, preventive formations and associated Commissioners of Customs (Appeals). The notification supersedes an earlier notification and authorises the listed officers to act for the corresponding areas, taking effect from the stated commencement date under sub-section (1) of section 4 of the Customs Act, 1962.

Installation date threshold amended for machinery and plant, altering eligibility for specified tax rule treatment.
Amendment to Income tax Rules, 1962 replaces the installation date condition in New Appendix I, Part A, III. Machinery and Plant, item (8), sub item (xiii), clauses (l) and (m), substituting the previous "installed on or before" threshold with an "installed on or after" threshold, thereby changing which assets satisfy the rule's installation date eligibility.

Provisional anti-dumping duty on imported glass and ceramic electrical insulators from China to counter below normal value exports.
Provisional anti-dumping duties are imposed on electrical insulators of glass or ceramics/porcelain (sub-headings 8546 10/8546 20) originating in or exported from the People's Republic of China, based on preliminary findings of exports below normal value causing injury to the domestic industry. The notification sets exporter- and producer-specific duty rates in US dollars per metric tonne, provides residual rates, excludes specified low-voltage and other listed items, and requires payment in Indian currency for a period not exceeding six months with the exchange rate determined by Government notifications and the bill of entry date.

Delegation of power allows Principal Chief Commissioner to define Commissioner Appeals and Audit jurisdiction, limiting their authority accordingly.
Delegation authorises the Principal Chief Commissioner or Chief Commissioner to specify, within their territorial scope, the jurisdiction of a Commissioner of Central Excise (Appeals) and a Commissioner of Central Excise (Audit), and limits those Commissioners' authority to the jurisdiction so specified; the delegation includes an operative commencement date.

Central Excise officer rank alignment updated: substituted officer and rank tables now govern powers and commencement follows notification.
Amendment substitutes officer-and-rank tables in earlier Central Excise notifications, listing directorate-wise cadres (Director General, Principal Director General, Additional Director General, Additional Director, Joint Director, Deputy/Assistant Director, Superintendent, Inspector) and mapping them to corresponding Central Excise ranks; it replaces the Table in the 2008 notification similarly and prescribes commencement of these substitutions as specified in the notification.

Jurisdiction specification for Central Excise officers: mapping commissionerates, appointing officers and extending centralised registration coverage.
Specification of territorial jurisdiction and administrative mapping of Principal Chief Commissioners, Chief Commissioners, Principal Commissioners and Commissioners of Central Excise, together with jurisdictions for Commissioners (Audit) and (Appeal); appointment of named officers and subordinate Service Tax audit officers as Central Excise officers; and extension of a Principal Commissioner's or Commissioner's jurisdiction to cover premises of assessees holding centralised registration located in other commissionerates.

Appointment of Central Excise Officers: designated officers vested with Chapter V powers under the Finance Act nationwide.
Officers in the Directorate General of Audit, Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence and Directorate General of Service Tax are appointed as Central Excise Officers and vested with all powers under Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994, exercisable throughout India, with a table mapping specified posts to corresponding Central Excise ranks and supersession of earlier notifications.

Delegation of powers allows Principal Chief Commissioner to specify and limit Commissioners' jurisdiction under Service Tax rules.
Delegation under section 37A read with section 83 delegates the Board's powers under rule 3 of the Service Tax Rules, 1994 to the Principal Chief Commissioner or Chief Commissioner to specify the jurisdiction of Commissioners of Service Tax and Central Excise in appellate and audit roles, and provides that each such Commissioner's jurisdiction is limited to the jurisdiction so specified; the notification includes a commencement date.

Appointment of Central Excise Officers: service tax officers vested with Chapter V powers across specified jurisdictions.
The notification appoints specified Chief Commissioners, Principal Commissioners, Commissioners and their subordinates as Central Excise Officers and vests those officers listed in Tables 1-5 with all powers under Chapter V of the Finance Act, 1994 in respect of the territorial or officer jurisdictions identified. The Tables allocate functions across cities, Large Taxpayer Units, audit and appeals formations, and set territorial boundaries; provisos extend jurisdiction for centrally registered assessees and exempt most officers (except Large Taxpayer Unit officers) from Chapter V powers for certain cross-border online information and database services provided from non-taxable territory.

Recognition renewal for a stock exchange granted under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, subject to SEBI compliance.
Renewal of recognition is granted to MCX Stock Exchange Limited under the Securities Contracts (Regulation) Act, 1956 for a one-year period in respect of contracts in securities, exercised under section 4 after an application under section 3, and is subject to compliance with conditions specified by the regulator and any further prescriptions imposed under the Act.

Increase in settlement bracket expands the applicable slab in Schedule I Part B under settlement regulations.
Amendment substitutes the word five with the word ten in Schedule I, Part B of the Settlement Regulations, thereby altering the numeric slab referenced in that Part; the amendment comes into force upon publication in the Official Gazette.

Tariff value fixation: notification prescribes customs tariff values for specified imported commodities to guide import valuation.
Exercise of power under Section 14(2) of the Customs Act, 1962 to amend Notification No. 36/2001 Customs (N.T.) by substituting TABLE 1, TABLE 2 and TABLE 3 with prescribed tariff values in US dollars for specified imported commodities, including several grades of palm oil and palmolein, crude soybean oil, brass scrap, poppy seeds, areca nuts, and unit based values for gold and silver where specified notification benefits apply.

Corporate Social Responsibility expenditure now expressly includes administrative overheads under the amended rules.
The Companies (Corporate Social Responsibility Policy) Amendment Rules, 2014 insert the words "including expenditure on administrative overheads," after the phrase "but such expenditure" in rule 4, sub rule (6), thereby expressly clarifying that CSR expenditure includes administrative overheads; the amendment is made by Central Government notification and takes effect on publication in the Official Gazette.

Special Economic Zone expansion: additional land parcels notified and specified parcels de notified, updating the SEZ footprint.
Pursuant to the Special Economic Zones Act and Rule 8 of the SEZ Rules, the Central Government, on the proposal of M/s Mangalore SEZ Limited and having satisfied statutory requirements, notifies addition of specific surveyed parcels and de notifies others within the Baikampady SEZ, lists the affected survey numbers, aggregates the areas for each change, and records the resultant SEZ area following those amendments.

Appointment of Competition Commission member: central government designates U. C. Nahta under the Competition Act for fixed-term service.
The Central Government, invoking Section 8(1) read with Section 10(1) of the Competition Act, appoints Shri U. C. Nahta as a Member of the Competition Commission of India from the date of his assumption of charge, subject to a fixed term or earlier cessation upon attainment of the prescribed maximum age or until further orders.

Appointment of VAT officers under Delhi VAT Act to assist Commissioner, designating officers as Assistant Commissioners.
Pursuant to clause (a) of sub section (2) of section 66 of the Delhi Value Added Tax Act, 2004 read with rule 47 of the Rules, the Lt. Governor appoints specified officers to assist the Commissioner in administering the Act. The appointees-Smt. Rakhi Singhal, Sh. Anil Kumar, Sh. Gaurav Saini, Sh. T. Misao, Smt. Sushita Biju and Sh. Rajesh Bhatia-are designated Value Added Tax Officer cum Assistant Commissioner effective from their dates of physical joining.

Double taxation avoidance: Agreement allocates taxing rights between India and Bhutan and provides mechanisms for relief and information exchange.
The Agreement between India and Bhutan allocates taxing rights to avoid double taxation and prevent fiscal evasion by defining persons and taxes covered, residence rules, and the roles of competent authorities. It sets out source state and residence state taxation across income categories-notably business profits attributable to a permanent establishment, dividends, interest, royalties, capital gains and employment income-provides methods for elimination of double taxation, mutual agreement and dispute resolution procedures, exchange of information and assistance in tax collection, and a Limitation of Benefits rule denying treaty advantages in cases lacking bona fide economic substance.