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    Assessing Officer jurisdiction defined by place of business or residence; intra departmental determination and strict time bars follow.
    Section 242 defines Assessing Officer jurisdiction vested by directions/orders under section 241(1)-(3): jurisdiction for businesses attaches to the place of business or principal place, and for others to residence. Jurisdictional disputes are to be determined by specified income tax authorities or, where those authorities disagree, by the Board or a Board designated authority. The section bars late challenges to jurisdiction by reference to specified notice periods and assessment completion events, requires AOs to refer unresolved timely challenges for departmental determination before assessing, and preserves AO powers over income within the vested area; the enacted text omits certain cross references present in the originating bill.
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    Taxpayer's Charter: Board empowered to adopt and direct administration, granting wide administrative discretion over implementation.
    Section 240 obligates the Board to adopt and declare a Taxpayer's Charter and to issue orders, instructions, directions or guidelines to other income-tax authorities for its administration; the Board is not defined here and the phrase "as it considers fit" grants wide administrative discretion. The provision is enabling and administrative in character, lacks Charter content, enforcement mechanisms, timelines and definitions of affected authorities, and the practical effect depends on subsequent instruments implementing the Charter.
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    Board power to issue binding administrative instructions, limited to avoid directing case outcomes and protecting appellate discretion.
    The Board is empowered to issue binding orders, instructions and directions to subordinate income tax authorities for uniform administration while being expressly prohibited from directing a specific outcome in any particular case or interfering with appellate officers' discretion. The Board may issue general or special orders to set procedural guidelines, publish them for public guidance, authorise non appellate authorities to admit time barred claims to alleviate genuine hardship, and relax specified procedural requirements where non compliance was beyond the assessee's control, subject to reasons and parliamentary laying of such relaxation orders.
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    Appointment powers: Central Government may appoint and delegate tax authority appointments, subject to service rules and orders.
    Section 237 vests plenary appointment power for income-tax authorities in the Central Government, allows delegation to the Board and specified senior tax officers to appoint officers below the rank of Deputy Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner, and permits Board authorised income-tax authorities to appoint necessary executive and ministerial staff; both delegation and staffing powers are expressly qualified "subject to the rules and its orders regulating the conditions of service of persons in public services and posts."
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    Tonnage tax reserve requirement ties tax benefits to reinvestment and training; non compliance ends tonnage tax option.
    Section 232 requires tonnage tax companies to credit a mandated proportion of book profit from qualifying shipping activities to a Tonnage Tax Reserve Account annually, permitting use of the reserve within a fixed period for acquisition of qualifying new ships or for operating qualifying ships while prohibiting distributions or offshore asset creation; misuse or non utilisation causes apportionment and taxation of the relevant shipping income, and repeated failures in reserve creation or in meeting training and charter in limits lead to cessation of the tonnage tax option. Reporting, separate books and prescribed certificates are required, and several operational details are left to delegated rules.
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    Tonnage tax election: structured application, limited renewal and extended re entry bar on opting into the regime.
    Tonnage tax election requires a qualifying company to apply to the Joint Commissioner in the prescribed form and manner within the statutory initial window; the Commissioner may request documents, must afford a reasonable opportunity to be heard before refusing, and must issue a written order within a fixed decision period. Approval makes the scheme applicable from the tax year of election and keeps the option in force for a defined multi year term; cessation events and a restricted renewal window are specified, and a prolonged bar prevents re entry after voluntary opt out, default, or exclusion.
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    Exclusion of deductions and losses: tonnage tax confines shipping losses within the tonnage regime, barring cross set off.
    The tonnage tax regime confines tax treatment of qualifying shipping operations by treating general loss and deduction provisions as having been applied within each relevant tonnage tax year, prohibiting carry forward or set off of specified losses relating to qualifying ships while under the scheme, and requiring depreciation and pre option loss treatment to reflect deductions as if claimed and allowed; any apportionment of pre option losses must be made on a reasonable basis.
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    Depreciation allocation for tonnage tax assets: apportioned WDV creates separate qualifying blocks and governs capital gains treatment.
    Clause 229 requires first-year depreciation for the tonnage tax scheme to be computed on the tax written down value apportioned between qualifying and non-qualifying ships using book WDV proportions; the apportioned qualifying amount forms a separate block for depreciation, transfers between blocks follow prescribed proportional formulas on change of use, and disposals of qualifying assets are taxed as capital gains with section 74 applied to the qualifying block's WDV.
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    Relevant shipping income exclusion from book profit narrowed to a specific book profit computation, clarifying tonnage tax scope and compliance.
    Relevant shipping income comprises profits from enumerated core ship operations and prescribed incidental activities for a tonnage tax company; incidental receipts above the prescribed threshold are excluded from the tonnage measure and taxed generally. Transfers between tonnage and non tonnage businesses are to be tested at market value or, where impracticable, computed on a reasonable basis by the Assessing Officer. Common costs and depreciation must be reasonably allocated, losses in relevant shipping income are ignored for tonnage computation, and the book profit or loss from relevant shipping activities is excluded from the company's book profit for the specified computation under section 206.
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    Tonnage tax scheme requires separate business treatment and distinct computation for qualifying shipping operations upon exercise of option.
    An elective tonnage tax scheme treats qualifying shipping operations as a separate business requiring separate computation of profits; operation includes owned, chartered and partial charter arrangements. Tonnage income is computed under the Part's computation provision and deemed to be profits of business, with relevant shipping income not chargeable where the scheme applies. The regime is available only if the company exercises the statutory option; absent the option, general provisions apply.
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    Tonnage tax option for ship operators permits elective computation and deems such income as business income.
    The provision allows companies operating qualifying ships to elect a special tonnage computation and deems the resulting amount to be profits and gains of business or profession, while the enacted text limits the clause's non-application by preserving the operation of certain specified provisions.
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    Deeming rule: distributions retain trust character, requiring payer reporting and trust taxation at maximum marginal rate.
    Clause 223 deems distributions by a business trust to retain the same character and proportion in the hands of unit holders, charges the trust's total income at the maximum marginal rate subject to qualifying statutory mechanisms, treats specified scheduled items as unit holder income in the year of receipt, excludes certain sums from the deeming rule, and requires payers to furnish prescribed statements detailing the nature of distributed amounts.
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    Tax on investment income: enacted wording omits explicit treatment of long term capital gains on non specified assets, creating rate uncertainty.
    Special tax rates apply to certain income categories of a non-resident Indian: a specified rate on income from investment, a separate concessional rate on long-term capital gains from a "specified asset," and general rates for residual total income; the enacted text omits an explicit allocation of long-term capital gains on non-specified assets into the investment-income category, creating uncertainty whether such gains attract the special investment rate or fall to residual rates.
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    Foreign exchange asset classification determines tax treatment of income from assets acquired in convertible foreign exchange.
    Definitions for sections 213-218 tie asset status to acquisition in convertible foreign exchange: a foreign exchange asset is any specified asset acquired with convertible foreign exchange; investment income is any income from such an asset; long-term capital gains are capital gains on a foreign exchange asset that is not short-term; non-resident Indian is a person not resident who is either an Indian citizen or of Indian origin; specified asset lists shares, certain debentures, certain deposits and Central Government securities, with a government notification power and a changed statutory cross-reference for government securities between Bill and Act.
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    Taxation of foreign institutional investors' securities income: fixed-category rates apply and residual income taxed under general rates.
    The provision creates a category-based tax regime for Foreign Institutional Investors and specified funds, requiring segregation of securities income and capital gains into prescribed heads and applying fixed tax rates to each head, with residual income taxed at general rates. Specified funds are taxed only on amounts attributable to units held by non-residents (attribution to be prescribed). Where gross total income is solely securities income, routine deductions are disallowed; where mixed, specified incomes are excluded for deduction computations. A specified loss-set-off mechanism is excluded for the listed capital gains.
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    Tax on foreign currency bonds and GDRs: clarified computation and fixed-source tax treatment for non resident incomes.
    Non residents are subject to special tax treatment on interest from specified bonds and dividends on GDRs acquired in foreign currency through an approved intermediary, and on long term capital gains from transfer of those assets; the enacted section prescribes separate tax treatment for each income head, clarifies computation by requiring income tax be computed at the specified rate applied to the corresponding income, and conditions applicability on foreign currency acquisition, intermediary approval, specified deduction exclusions, return filing exceptions and transitional/amalgamation treatment.
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    Preferential tax regime for offshore fund income from foreign currency purchased units, segregating specified incomes and limiting deductions.
    Section 208 creates a separate tax regime for overseas financial organisations investing in specified Indian units: income from units purchased in foreign currency and long term capital gains on transfer of such units are taxed at fixed rates while remaining income is taxed ordinarily. The provision restricts deductions when gross total income consists solely of those specified incomes and requires segregation of specified incomes so Chapter VIII deductions apply only to the residual income. Eligibility depends on arrangements with specified Indian entities and SEBI approval.
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    Head specific tax rates for cross border dividends, royalties and technical fees, with restricted deductions and targeted concessions.
    A head specific source taxation regime imposes fixed tax rates on dividends, specified interest, distributed income, unit income, royalties and fees for technical services for non residents and foreign companies, aggregates tax as the sum of prescribed head rates plus tax on residual income, prescribes targeted preferential rates for certain investment vehicles, and restricts deductions in specified scenarios while relying on cross references to other provisions for definitions and exclusions.
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    Minimum tax regime deeming book profit/adjusted income taxable when regular tax is below prescribed minimum, imposing MAT/AMT.
    Section 206 creates a minimum tax regime whereby, if tax under general provisions is less than a prescribed percentage of book profit (for companies) or adjusted total income (for others), that book profit/adjusted total income is deemed total income and taxed at the prescribed rate. The provision prescribes formulaic add backs and reductions to compute book profit, addresses IND AS transition adjustments, specifies exclusions and carve outs, mandates an accountant's certificate in prescribed form, and provides carry forward and credit rules for excess MAT/AMT paid.
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    Concessional tax computation limited by eligibility rules, asset provenance constraints, and AO power to recharacterise excess profits.
    Clause 205 sets that, for specified concessional provisions, total income must be computed without certain listed deductions or exemptions, conditions eligibility on the origin and nature of the business and on limits for previously used plant, and empowers the Board (with Central Government approval) to issue guidelines subject to parliamentary laying. The Assessing Officer may determine and attribute profits reasonably deemed in excess of ordinary profits where arrangements inflate returns, applying the arm's length principle for specified domestic transactions.

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      CUSTOMS DUTY EXEMPTIONS / CONCESSIONS BEING ALLOWED TO LAPSE

      24 July, 2024

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      Certain BCD exemptions entries under S No. 50/2017-Customs dated 30.6.2017 and other notifications are being allowed to lapse with effect from 30.9.2024.

      (a) The following entries of notification no. 50/2017-Customs dated 30.6.2017 are being allowed to lapse with effect from 30.9.2024:

      S. No.

      S N of 50/2017 Customs

      Description

      1.

      478

      Wireless apparatus, accessories and parts as specified in List 29 imported by a licensed amateur radio operator

      2.

      353

      Foreign currency coins when imported into India by a Scheduled Bank

      3.

      387

       Zinc metal recovered by toll smelting or toll processing from zinc concentrates exported from India for such processes

      4.

      441

      Spinnerettes made inter alia of Gold, Platinum and Rhodium or any one or more of these metals, when imported in exchange of worn-out or damaged spinnerettes exported out of India

      5.

      238

      Organic/inorganic Coating material for manufacture of electrical steel

      6.

      254

      Catalyst for manufacture of cast components of Wind Operated Electricity Generator

      7.

      255

      Resin for manufacture of cast components of Wind Operated Electricity Generator

      8.

      277A

      Calendared plastic sheet for manufacturing of Smart Card under chapter heading 8523

      9.

      339

      Concessional rate on import of Toughened glass with low iron content and transmissivity of minimum 91% and above, for use in manufacture of solar thermal collectors or heaters

      10.

      421

      Specified goods required for basic telephone service, cellular mobile telephone service, internet service or closed users’ group 64 KBPS domestic data network via INSAT satellite system service and parts, for manufacture of the goods

      11.

      479

      Mono or Bi polar Membrane electrolysers and parts thereof including secondary brine purification components, jumper switches, filtering elements for hydrogen filters for caustic soda or potash units; Membrane and parts thereof or other parts for caustic soda or potash units;

      12.

      475

      Specified goods including scramblers, descramblers, encoders, decoders, jammers, network firewalls, network sniffers, scanners and monitoring systems, probes for data monitoring and SMS/MMS monitoring systems

      13.

      482

      Newspaper page transmission and reception facsimile system or equipment; and Telephoto transmission and reception system or equipment

      14.

      495

      Batteries for electrically operated vehicles, including two and three wheeled electric motor vehicles.

      15.

      497

      Active Energy Controller (AEC) for use in manufacture of Renewable Power System (RPS) inverters

      16.

      579

      Survey (DGPS) instruments, 3D modeling software for ore body simulation cum mine planning and exploration (geophysics and geochemistry) equipment required for surveying and prospecting of minerals

      17.

      419

      Aluminium Oxide for manufacture of washcoat of catalytic converter

      18.

      420

      Clay 2 powder for use in ceramic substrate for catalytic convertor

      19.

      340

      Solar tempered glass or solar tempered (anti-reflective coated) glass for use in manufacture of solar cells/panels/modules

      20.

      565

      Specified goods for use in the manufacture of Flexible Medical Video Endoscope [heading 9018]

      21.

      566

       Specific input goods for manufacture of syringes, needles, catheters and cannulae

      22.

      568

      Parts and components for manufacture of blood pressure monitors and blood glucose monitoring system (Glucometers)

      Note: Description of entries is indicative. Notification may be referred to for complete description.

      (b) The following notifications are being allowed to lapse with effect from 30.9.2024:

      S. No

      Notification No.

      Description

      1.

      97/99-Customs dated 21 July 1999

      Exempts BCD and additional duty under Sections 3(1), 3(3) and 3(5) on standard gold bars imported by a RBI authorised bank

      2.

      30/2004-Customs dated 28 January 2004

      Provides full exemption from BCD to second-hand computers/accessories and peripherals received as donation by schools, charitable institutions.

      3.

      102/2007-Customs dated 14 September 2017

      Provides exemption from Special Additional Duty (SAD) levied vide section 3(5) of CTA on to all goods imported for subsequent sale when IGST, CGST, SGST or UTGST paid by importer.

      4.

      45/2005-Customs dated 16 May 2005

      Provides exemption from Special Additional Duty levied under Section 3(5) of CTA on goods cleared from SEZ to DTA.

      5.

      151/94-Customs dated 13 July 1994

      Provides exemption to imports of duty-paid fuel and lubricating oil on aircrafts taken during the outward flight; goods imports by United Arab Airlines; aircraft engines, spares imported by Indian Airlines and Air India International. Re-import entries will operate from re-import notification 45/2017-Cus

      6.

      26-Customs dated 19th February 1962

      Provides exemption from import duty under the Sea Customs Act on catering cabin equipment, food and drink on re-importation by aircrafts of the Indian Airlines Corporation from foreign flights

      Note: Description of entries is indicative. Notification may be referred to for complete description.


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