Exemption under section 10(46): specified CBSE receipts exempted subject to non-commercial activity, unchanged income nature and return filing.
Notification under clause (46) of section 10 designates the Central Board of Secondary Education, Delhi, as a notified board exempting specified income comprising examination fees; affiliation fees; sale of textbooks and publications; registration, sports, training and other academic receipts; receipts from projects/programmes; interest on income tax refunds; and interest on those receipts, subject to non-engagement in commercial activity, unchanged nature of activities and specified income, and filing of return as prescribed.

Exemption under section 10(46): specified CBSE receipts exempt subject to non commerciality, unchanged activities and prescribed return filing.
Notification under clause (46) of section 10 exempts specified CBSE incomes: examination fees; affiliation fees; sale of textbooks/publications; registration, sports, training and other academic receipts; receipts from CBSE projects/programmes; interest on income tax refunds; and interest on those receipts. Exemption is subject to conditions: no commercial activity, unchanged nature of activities and specified incomes across financial years, and filing returns under clause (g) of sub section (4C) of section 139. The notification is retrospective to financial year 2013-2014.

Exemption from specified income: notification grants tax exemption subject to non commerciality and return filing conditions.
Notification under clause (46) of section 10 notifies Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority as entitled to exemption for specified incomes: receipts from disposal of land, buildings and other properties; rents, fees and charges from such disposals; interest/penalties on deferred payments from allottees; water, sewerage and municipal charges from allottees; and interest on these receipts. The exemption is conditional on no engagement in commercial activity, unchanged nature of activities and income across the financial years, and filing returns under clause (g) of section 139(4C); applied for FY2020-2021 to 2022-2023.

Extension of limitation for GST recovery orders extends issuance deadlines for specified past financial years.
The State amended prior notifications to extend the limitation period for issuance of recovery orders to recover tax not paid or short paid and for adjustment of input tax credit wrongly availed or utilised, specifying separate extended deadlines for three distinct financial years and thereby preserving the authority to initiate recovery proceedings within the newly prescribed timeframes.

Late fee waiver for delayed final GST returns: excess charges above threshold waived for returns filed within specified filing window.
The Governor, on the Council's recommendations and under statutory power, waives the portion of the late fee under section 47 exceeding five hundred rupees for registered persons who fail to furnish FORM GSTR-10 by the due date but furnish that final return between 1 April 2023 and 30 June 2023.

Late fee waiver for GST returns: specified per-day caps for turnover classes and conditional excess waiver for delayed filings.
Waiver of late fee for returns under section 44 for financial year 2022-23 onwards fixes per-day late fee by turnover class, each subject to a maximum cap calculated as a percentage of turnover in the State or Union territory; a proviso waives late fee in excess of a specified threshold for returns for certain earlier financial years if filed between 1 April 2023 and 30 June 2023.

Deemed withdrawal of assessment orders conditional on filing delayed returns and payment of interest and late fee.
Notification deems assessment orders withdrawn for registered persons who failed to file a valid return within thirty days of service of an assessment order issued on or before the cutoff, provided they file the return by the final date and pay the statutory interest and late fee; these payments are required irrespective of any appeal status.

Anti-dumping duty on ursodeoxycholic acid to offset dumped imports from China PR and Korea RP under reference-price mechanism.
Definitive anti-dumping duty is imposed on imports of Ursodeoxycholic Acid from China PR and Korea RP, calculated as the difference between landed value and specified reference prices per unit where landed value is lower. The notification specifies tariff coverage, producer-specific and residual reference prices, unit and currency, clarifies landed value as assessable value under the Customs Act excluding certain duties, and mandates the exchange rate and relevant date for conversion. The duty is payable in Indian currency and effective for a five-year period from the provisional-duty commencement date, subject to exclusion for a specified lapse period.

Revocation of cancellation of registration: eligible cancelled registrants may apply after furnishing due returns and paying outstanding dues.
The notification allows persons whose registration was cancelled on or before the specified cut off and who failed to apply within the ordinary time to apply for revocation within an extended window, provided they first furnish returns due up to the effective date of cancellation and pay any tax, interest, penalty and late fee; no further extensions will be granted and the class includes those whose appeals or prior revocation applications were rejected for failure to meet the original time limit.

Late fee waiver for delayed GSTR-4 filings permits partial or full waiver if central tax liability is nil.
The amendment inserts a proviso waiving the portion of the late fee payable under section 47 in excess of two hundred and fifty rupees, and fully waiving the late fee where the total central tax payable in the return is nil, for registered persons who failed to furnish FORM GSTR-4 for quarters from July 2017 to March 2019 or for financial years 2019-20 to 2021-22 by the due date but who furnish those returns between 1 April 2023 and 30 June 2023.

Waiver of interest on import duty due to electronic cash ledger and portal technical failures, easing trade facilitation.
Waiver of interest on import duty arising from electronic cash ledger and Common Portal technical failures. The Board, invoking its power to waive interest in the public interest, finds that integration difficulties among ICES, ICEGATE, banks and stakeholders prevented completion of duty payment processes and caused interest to accrue; accordingly it waives interest payable where payment is made from electronic cash ledger amounts for the affected period. Implementation will be effected on the Common Portal, while refund claims for entries already integrated into ICES remain subject to statutory refund provisions.

Residential dwelling rent exemption clarified for proprietors using premises personally as their own residence under state GST rules.
Exemption under the Assam State GST rate notification is clarified for renting of a residential dwelling to a registered person where the registered person is a proprietor using the premises in his personal capacity as his own residence, and not on behalf of the proprietorship concern. The notification also omits Sl. No. 23A and the related entries, with retrospective effect from 1 January 2023.

Essential oils GST rate entry amended for specified mint oils and related supplies under Assam SGST.
Assam SGST notification amends the State Tax (Rate) schedule by substituting Sl. No. 3A in the existing GST rate notification. The substituted entry covers specified essential oils other than citrus fruit, including peppermint oil and oils of other mints such as spearmint, water mint, horsemint, bergament and mentha arvensis, under the listed tariff headings. The revised table also distinguishes the entry by reference to any unregistered person and any registered person, with effect from 1 January 2023.

GST exemption entries amended for animal feed and pulse husk concentrates under the Assam tax schedule.
Amendment to the Assam State Tax (Rate) notification revises the Schedule entries relating to exempt goods under the Assam Goods and Services Tax regime. The existing description at Sl. No. 102 is substituted to cover aquatic feed, including shrimp and prawn feed, poultry feed and cattle feed, including grass, hay and straw, supplement and additives, wheat bran and de-oiled cake, other than rice bran. A new entry, Sl. No. 102C, is inserted for goods under tariff headings 2302 and 2309, covering husk of pulses including chilka, and concentrates including chuni or churi and khanda.

GST rate notification amended to revise entries for ethyl alcohol, fruit drinks, residues, and stationery boxes under Assam tax schedules.
Amendment made to the Assam State GST rate notification by substituting specified entries in Schedule I at 2.5%, Schedule II at 6%, and Schedule III at 9%. The revised entries cover ethyl alcohol supplied to oil marketing companies or petroleum refineries for blending with motor spirit, bran and other cereal or leguminous residues, fruit pulp or fruit juice based drinks excluding carbonated variants, and mathematical, geometry and colour boxes. Denatured ethyl alcohol and other spirits are also reclassified with an exclusion for ethyl alcohol supplied for blending with petrol.

Exchange rate determination fixes conversion rates for specified foreign currencies for import and export goods under Customs Act authority.
Determines the rate of exchange for specified foreign currencies into Indian rupees for customs valuation of imported and export goods, superseding an earlier notification and fixing separate conversion rates for imports and exports effective from 7 April 2023, as set out in two annexed schedules (per unit rates and per 100 unit rates).

Jurisdiction list update: specified foreign jurisdictions set for section 285BA reporting and related tax information obligations.
Amendment substitutes the Table in Notification No. 78/2018 to specify the foreign jurisdictions applicable for the purposes of section 285BA of the Income tax Act, as read with the Explanation to clause (6) of rule 114F; the replacement Table lists the named jurisdictions that determine the territorial scope of the reporting mechanism under the said provision.

Anti-dumping duty extension on fishing nets from China continues, maintaining existing import levy and review framework.
Extension of the existing anti-dumping duty on imports of fishing nets under Tariff Heading 5608 11 10 from China PR. The Central Government, invoking section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act and applicable rules, amends the prior notification to keep the duties listed in the notification's table in force until the specified extended date unless revoked, superseded or amended earlier.

Halal certification now requires i-CAS Halal accreditation for exporting meat, with compliance and registration obligations following.
Meat and meat products exported as Halal certified must originate from facilities with valid i-CAS Halal certification issued by Certification Bodies accredited by NABCB; exporters to countries with national Halal regulations must also comply with importing-country approvals, and existing certification bodies and export units have six months to obtain NABCB accreditation and to register on APEDA's dedicated portal respectively.

Limitation extension for GST tax recovery: deadlines extended for specified financial years to permit issuance of recovery orders.
The state government, on the Council's recommendation and by modifying prior notifications, extends the time limit for issuance of orders for recovery of tax not paid or short paid and for recovery of input tax credit wrongly availed or utilised. Distinct extended cut-off dates are prescribed for each specified financial year: one to the end of December of the stated calendar year, another to the end of March of the following calendar year, and a third to the end of June of the following calendar year.