Ministry of Finance Department of Revenue Central Board of Direct Taxes New Delhi, 28th September, 2026 Press Release The due date for furnishing Return of Income for Assessment Year 2026-27 is 31th October, 2026 in the case of persons mentioned at S. No. 2 in the Table below Explanation 2 to sub-section (1) of section 139 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has decided to extend the aforesaid due date of furnishing of Return of Income from ... ... ...

International transhipment of imported LCL cargo requires prior Customs permission, accurate manifest classification, and Customs-supervised unloading, segregation, storage and re-stuffing within a secure approved Container Freight Station. Local, foreign-bound transhipment and Inland Container Depot cargo must be separately identified, accounted for and moved under their respective procedures. Custodians must maintain prescribed records, prevent intermixing, execute a general bond for foreign-bound cargo, and ensure transhipment, delivery or onward movement within 30 days. Cargo remaining uncleared is subject to reporting, notice and disposal procedures.

Rejection of charitable registration and tax-exemption approval applications solely for non-compliance with notices is unsustainable unless proper service is established. Portal printouts showing that notices were issued, without identifying the service date or the applicant's email ID, do not prove effective service. Applicants must receive a reasonable and fair opportunity to submit supporting documentary evidence before adverse action. The applications require fresh determination after adequate notice and opportunity of hearing.

Section 15A of the Industries (Development and Regulation) Act, 1951 permits investigation into restarting an industrial undertaking owned by a company in liquidation when its business is not continuing at the time the prescribed opinion is formed, regardless of the duration of closure. The required opinion must rest on material rationally connected to public interest and to production, supply or distribution. No prior hearing is required because an investigation only examines the possibility of restarting and imposes no immediate adverse civil consequence. Section 15A contains sufficient legislative guidance and does not offend Article 14; failed commercial negotiations or prior proceedings alone do not establish mala fides.

Coordinated customs enforcement targeted an organised gold-smuggling network that used courier consignments to distribute foreign-origin gold after cross-border entry. The operation led to seizure of 6.61 kg of gold bars under the Customs Act, 1962, and arrests of eleven associated persons. The network allegedly split gold into small consignments and used paper entities or persons without legitimate gold transactions to conceal distribution through courier channels.

Consideration for operating and arranging outbound package tours is not subject to service tax where tourist consumers consume the tours outside Indian territory. Taxability under the service-tax regime depends on the nature of the service and its territorial consumption. Although arranging outbound tours may fall within the amended definition of tour operator service, the overseas consumption of the tour prevents the consideration from being taxed as a domestic taxable service. Established decisions on the same issue support non-taxability of outbound package-tour consideration.

Trust and Company Services Providers may support permitted leasing activities by establishing trusts, companies, limited liability partnerships, and other bodies corporate; performing or arranging fiduciary, management, and nominee functions; and providing registered, business, correspondence, or administrative addresses where applicable law permits. They may act as trustees, directors, company secretaries, nominee shareholders, partners, designated partners, or equivalent persons. Additional services may be undertaken where permitted by the Authority.

Regulation 10L requires every Trust and Company Services Provider to identify conflicts of interest arising in the course of its business and, wherever appropriate, disclose them. Each provider must also maintain a documented conflict management policy, establishing a formal framework for identifying, disclosing and managing business-related conflicts.

Every Trust and Company Services Provider must maintain professional indemnity insurance cover commensurate with the scale and risk profile of its business. The cover must protect against claims arising from negligence, errors, omissions, or breach of duty. Compliance requires insurance protection calibrated to the provider's business scale and risk profile.

Trust and Company Services Providers that contravene applicable regulatory provisions, guidelines, circulars or directions are liable to enforcement action under the Act, including suspension or cancellation of registration. Before enforcement action arising from regulatory default is taken, the provider must be afforded a reasonable opportunity to be heard through written submissions.

Classification of hydrogen-cylinder skid vehicle rentals as a deemed sale or a taxable supply of tangible goods for use depends on the invoices evidencing the transaction's true nature. As those invoices were unavailable and had not been verified, service-tax liability remained undetermined. Fresh examination of the invoices is required through remand for fresh adjudication.

Trust and Company Services Providers must furnish operational information to the Authority in the prescribed manner, at prescribed intervals and in the prescribed form. Financial reporting to the Authority must be made in US dollars unless it specifies otherwise. The applicable reporting format, periodicity and any alternative reporting currency remain subject to the Authority's directions.

Trust and Company Services Providers may render services only to a Service Recipient that is a non-resident located in a jurisdiction not identified in the Financial Action Task Force public statement as a high-risk jurisdiction subject to a call for action. Services listed in the Fifth Schedule may be provided to an IFSC-based special purpose vehicle as the primary service recipient, notwithstanding Indian resident involvement. Contractual and fiduciary obligations are owed only to that special purpose vehicle.

Trust and Company Services Providers must appoint a Principal Officer and a Compliance Officer. Both officers must be based in an International Financial Services Centre and engaged as full-time employees. Each appointee must hold a professional or postgraduate qualification in finance, law, commerce, or a related field. The Principal Officer must additionally have at least five years' post-qualification experience in financial services activity. Existing Compliance Officers may be redesignated only where prescribed minimum requirements are satisfied.

Trust and Company Services Providers must maintain proportionate governance frameworks, internal audit or independent review mechanisms, and effective AML/CFT and KYC controls. They must keep accurate and accessible client, entity, service and constitutive records, retain them for at least five years after the client relationship ends, and apply data-security and confidentiality safeguards. Segregation of duties is required across client acceptance, service delivery, transaction execution and compliance oversight. Permitted leasing services must be maintained as a distinct and adequately resourced business line.

Regulation 10E requires Trust and Company Services Providers to ensure, at all times, that the provider entity and its principal officer, compliance officer, directors, partners, designated partners, and controlling shareholders are fit and proper persons. The applicable fit and proper standard is governed by Regulation 7.

Regulation 10D provides that the permissible services which may be undertaken by a Trust and Company Services Provider in an International Financial Services Centre are those specified in the Fifth Schedule to the International Financial Services Centres Authority (Techfin and Ancillary Services) Regulations, 2025.

Regulation 10C requires an applicant for trust and company services provider activities to be incorporated in the IFSC as a company or limited liability partnership, unless another legal form is permitted by the Authority. Every promoter or partner must also be from a jurisdiction not identified in the Financial Action Task Force public statement as a high-risk jurisdiction subject to a call for action.

Prior registration is required before an entity may commence Trust and Company Services Provider services in an IFSC. An applicant must apply in the prescribed form and manner, obtain a certificate of registration, and declare that its Trust and Company Services Provider activities will remain at arm's length from other services. The certificate remains valid unless suspended, cancelled, or voluntarily surrendered, with surrender taking effect only upon acceptance. Existing TechFin and Ancillary Service Providers require separate approval to undertake these services.

Regulation 10A defines a Trust and Company Services Provider as an entity granted registration as a Tech Fin and Ancillary Services Provider under the applicable Regulations. Registration qualifies the entity to undertake Trust and Company Services Provider services for leasing activities permitted by the Authority, limiting the service category to registered entities operating within the permitted leasing scope.