Import-export restrictions: Notifications may impose prohibitions or restrictions to protect public interest, security, and supply chains.
DGFT is empowered to issue Notifications imposing Prohibition or Restriction on imports and exports to address critical shortages, apply trade standards and classifications, regulate fisheries imports linked to domestic production controls, safeguard the external financial position, promote domestic industry, prevent import surges injurious to domestic producers, and ensure essential supplies for domestic processing and distribution. The amendment also affirms controls for protection of public morals, health, intellectual property compliance, conservation of natural resources, prohibition of prison-labour products, protection of national treasures, restrictions related to fissionable materials and arms, emergency measures in international relations, and actions under United Nations Charter obligations.

Non-convertible securities framework: mandatory dematerialisation, trustee oversight, disclosure, security cover and enforcement mechanisms.
Comprehensive SEBI regulations govern issuance and listing of non-convertible securities-debt, non-convertible redeemable preference shares, perpetual instruments and commercial paper-applicable to public issues and private placements proposed to be listed. They prescribe eligibility exclusions (debarred persons, wilful defaulters, fugitive economic offenders), mandatory dematerialisation, debenture trustee and registrar appointments, credit rating, recovery expense fund, 100% security cover for secured debt, disclosure, filing of draft offer documents, due diligence by lead managers and trustees, timelines, interest/penalties for delays, and enforcement powers for inspection, directions, relaxations and regulatory fees.

Member transactions as taxable supplies reshape input credit, delayed-payment interest, annual returns, recovery powers, and detention penalties under Bihar GST.
Bihar GST provisions treat transactions for consideration between a person other than an individual and its members or constituents as supplies between separate persons, retrospectively from 1 July 2017. Input tax credit requires supplier-furnished invoice or debit-note details to be communicated to the recipient. Interest on delayed returns applies to tax paid through the electronic cash ledger, subject to proceedings-related exclusion. The framework also revises annual-return compliance, self-assessed tax recovery, provisional attachment, detention-and-seizure penalties, appeals, confiscation, information powers, and confidentiality safeguards.

GST return compliance and refund withdrawal procedures impose filing restrictions, permit ledger re-credit, and revise withheld-refund release mechanisms.
GST registration revocation applications may be filed within an extended period authorised by the competent Commissioner-level officer. Corporate registered persons receive temporary EVC verification flexibility, while input tax credit conditions for specified months apply cumulatively. FORM GSTR-1 and invoice furnishing facility filing is barred for taxpayers with prescribed pending FORM GSTR-3B returns. Refund claims may be withdrawn through FORM GST RFD-01W before specified stages, with debited ledger amounts re-credited. The refund limitation period excludes time spent awaiting deficiency communication where a corrected fresh claim is filed.

GST compliance timelines extend, cumulative input tax credit adjustment applies, and May details may be furnished through Invoice Furnishing Facility.
Tripura SGST compliance timelines and input tax credit adjustment were amended with effect from 1 June 2021, subject to specified provisions. The period under the fourth proviso to rule 26(1) was extended until 31 August 2021. The input tax credit condition under rule 36(4) applies cumulatively for April, May and June 2021, requiring cumulative adjustment in the relevant June return or quarterly return. Registered persons may furnish May 2021 details through the Invoice Furnishing Facility between 1 June and 28 June 2021.

Computation of exempt income: formula allocates specified fund income to non resident unit holders for tax treatment.
Rules prescribe formulae allocating specified fund income to non resident unit holders (excluding permanent establishments in India) using ratios based on aggregate daily or point in time assets under management for categories including capital gains on transfers in International Financial Services Centres, transfers of securities, income from non resident issued securities not accruing in India, and securitisation trust income. Annual electronic filing of verified statements in Form No.10IG and Form No.10IH is mandated, with procedural and systems responsibilities assigned to the Principal Director General/Director General of Income tax (Systems).

Anti-dumping duty on Phthalic Anhydride imports applies through origin, export-country and producer-specific rates for a fixed period.
Definitive anti-dumping duty applies to Phthalic Anhydride imports from China PR, Indonesia, Korea RP and Thailand through a schedule based on origin, export country and producer. Specified producers receive separate rates, with residual rates for other producers and coverage for exports routed through other countries. For certain Korean imports receiving identified customs-duty treatment, anti-dumping duty is limited to the difference between the scheduled amount and applicable customs duty. The duty is effective for five years unless earlier changed, payable in Indian currency, and converted at the exchange rate applicable on the bill-of-entry presentation date.

IEC updation extension: annual IEC update period extended and modification fees waived for updates completed in August.
The annual requirement to update and confirm IEC details electronically, normally during April-June, is extended for the compliance year so updates and online confirmations may be completed through the end of August; modifications effected during August will attract no fee. The amendment revises Para 2.05(d) of Chapter 2 of the Foreign Trade Policy, 2015-2020, and preserves the requirement to confirm electronically where no changes are made.

Import policy amendment extends CHIMS trial period and fixes online registration to commence after the trial, affecting specified IC HS codes.
Amendment modifies paragraph 3 of Notification No. 05/2015-2020 to confirm online CHIMS testing availability from 01.05.2021 on a trial basis, extends the CHIMS trial until 30.09.2021, and provides that CHIMS and online registration will be effective for Bills of Entry filed on or after 01.10.2021 for the listed IC HS codes.

Commencement date revised: provisions now set to come into force on January 1, 2022 under corrigendum.
Corrigendum substitutes the words in regulation 2 of the earlier notification so that the phrase "They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette" is to be read as "They shall come into force on January 1, 2022", thereby fixing the effective date of the provisions.

Non-repatriation investments by NRIs excluded from indirect foreign investment calculation under amended FEMA non-debt rules.
The amendment to Rule 23(7)(i) of the Foreign Exchange Management (Non-debt Instruments) Rules, 2019 states that an investment made by an Indian entity owned and controlled by NRIs on a non-repatriation basis shall not be considered for calculation of indirect foreign investment, thereby excluding such non-repatriation investments from indirect investment aggregation under the non-debt instruments rules.

Extension of applicability period adjusts the notification date and gives the amendment retrospective effect for the prior measure.
Amendment substitutes the terminal date in the earlier State Tax notification, replacing "31st day of May, 2021" with "30th day of June, 2021", thereby extending the period referenced in the principal notification. The amendment is declared deemed to have come into force from the originally cited commencement date, giving the substitution retrospective effect and modifying the operative temporal scope of notification No. 11/2021-State Tax.

Interim reward payment limits for insider trading informants: cap on interim grants and balance payable after recovery threshold
Regulation 7D is amended to permit the Board to grant the full reward upon issuance of its final order where the total reward does not exceed a specified small value threshold; where the total reward exceeds that threshold the Board may grant an interim reward up to the threshold on issuance of the final order and the remaining balance is payable only after SEBI collects or recovers monetary sanctions amounting to at least twice the balance reward. The amendment also broadens reward language to cover any reward and adds an illustrative table setting out computation and interim payment caps.

Asset management company investment obligation: Board may suspend scheme launches and forfeit invested amounts for regulatory breaches.
A new obligation requires the asset management company to invest prescribed amounts in its schemes based on scheme risk as specified by the Board. Sub regulation (4) of regulation 28 is deleted. Regulation 76 is replaced to empower the Board to initiate actions under the Act and Chapter VIA and to order measures including suspension of scheme launches and forfeiture of AMC invested amounts under the new obligation, subject to an opportunity of hearing.

Exemption for foreign companies from prospectus and subscription requirements in IFSCs under the Special Economic Zones framework.
The Central Government exempts foreign companies (incorporated outside India) from sections 387-392 of the Companies Act insofar as those provisions govern offering for subscription, prospectus requirements, and incidental matters within International Financial Services Centres established under the Special Economic Zones Act, 2005.

Electronic mode exclusion: IFSC electronic offerings and listings not treated as electronic mode under specified clause of the Act.
The Companies (Specification of definitions details) Third Amendment Rules, 2021 add an explanation to clause (h) of sub-rule (1) of rule 2 clarifying that electronic-based offering, subscription or listing of securities in International Financial Services Centres under the Special Economic Zones Act shall not be construed as electronic mode for the purposes of clause (42) of section 2 of the Companies Act.

Electronic mode exclusion clarified for securities offerings in international financial services centres, not treated as electronic mode under Companies Act.
Clarification that electronic-based offerings, subscriptions or listings of securities in International Financial Services Centres shall not be construed as electronic mode for purposes of clause (42) of section 2 of the Companies Act, by inserting an explanation in rule 2(1)(c) of the Companies (Registration of Foreign Companies) Rules, 2014.

Exchange rate determination: prescribed currency conversion rates set for customs valuation of imports and exports.
Under powers of section 14 of the Customs Act, 1962, the Board prescribes the rate of exchange for conversion of specified foreign currencies into Indian rupees and vice versa for import and export goods, effective 6th August, 2021, and annexes Schedules I and II listing separate rupee equivalents for imported and exported goods which are to be used for customs valuation until superseded.

Extension of due date for filing Form GSTR-4: state GST amendment extends the deadline for composition taxpayers to file annual returns.
The State government, exercising powers under the Andhra Pradesh GST Act, amends an earlier notification to substitute the prior return due date with a later date, thereby extending the deadline for filing Form GSTR-4 for the financial year 2020-21; the amendment is notified to have effect retrospectively from the end of May 2021 and replaces the specified date in the earlier notification.

Special Court designation under section 280A assigns jurisdiction for tax and undisclosed foreign income offences to a designated court.
The Central Government, under section 280A of the Income-tax Act and the corresponding provision of the Black Money Act, in consultation with the Chief Justice of the High Court, designates the Court of the Special Judge for Economic Offences-cum-VIII Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge-cum-XXII Additional Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad, as the Special Court for the State to exercise jurisdiction over offences under those statutes.