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<html> <head> <title>Untitled Document</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#663399" size="3">TIOL-DDT 186</font><br> 24 08 2005<br> Wednesday</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#006633" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Tuticorin included as a port for import and export under various schemes</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Government has amended 17 notifications to include Titicorin as a port eligible for export and import under various schemes like, Vishesh Krishi Upaj Yojana, Export Promotion Capital Goods Scheme (EPCG), Duty Entitlement Pass Book (DEPB), Advance licence for annual requirement with actual user condition issued to Star Export Houses, Advance licence,— Exemption to imports under Served from India Scheme Certificate, Advance licence for deemed export, Duty Free Replenishment Certificate (DFRC) etc,.<br> <br> <a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=23&filename=notification/custom/2005/ctariff05_077.htm">NOTIFICATION. NO 77/2005-CUSTOMS dated 22.8.2005</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#006633" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Import of metallic scrap – some more stations added</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> As per para 2.32 (i) (b) of the HOP, import of metallic waste and scrap in unshredded, compressed and loose form shall be permitted through the following ports only<br> <br> 1. Chennai, 2. Cochin, 3. Ennore, 4. JNPT, 5. Kandla, 6. Mormugao, 7. Mumbai, 8. New Mangalore, 9. Paradip, 10. Tuticorin, 11. Vishakhapatnam, 12. ICD Tughlakabad, 13. Pipava, 14. Mundra, 15. Kolkata, 16. ICD Ludhiana, 17. ICD Dadri, Greater Noida, 18. ICD Nagpur, 19. ICD Jodhpur, 20. ICD Jaipur, 21. ICD Udaipur, 22. CFS Mulund, <b>23. ICD Kanpur, 24. ICD Ahmedabad, 25. ICD Pithampur and 26. ICD Malanpur.</b><br> <br> The last 4 stations were added by DGFT’s PUBLIC NOTICE NO 39 (RE-2005) /2004-2009, Dated: August 16, 2005. But water will become holy only if poured into the conch and DGFT’s declaration will become effective only when Customs chooses to put it into effect. So now CBEC has come out with a circular adding these stations. DDT has often wondered why the same rule has to be notified both by CBEC and DGFT. But what is Government without duplication?<br> <br> <a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=25&filename=notification/custom/2005/cuscir05_035.htm">CIRCULAR NO. 35/2005-Cus., Dated: August 22, 2005</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#006633" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Newsprint in reels – retrospective exemption</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> By Notification No. 23/2004 dated 9.7.2004, newsprint in reels was exempted from excise duty. It seems that from 1.3.1988 duty was not being realised on newsprint. Now the Government has issued a Section 11C notification exempting the newsprint on which duty was not levied. Section 11C is a statutory provision for retrospective exemption. <br> <br> <a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=30&filename=notification/excise/2005/exnt05_032.htm">NOTIFICATION NO. 32/2005-CENTRAL EXCISE (N.T.) Dated : August 22, 2005</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#006633" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Staff Cars not to be used for official journey outside the headquarters when TA is admissible</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">But for going to the market? That royal looking Ambassador car (which is slowly giving way to flashy new cars) is the ultimate status symbol of the babu in India. Lalu Prasad Yadav once remarked that a babu will do anything to retain his car, his bungalow and his janitor. The car with the red or blue light and with a liveried/uniformed assistant/driver is a great ego booster especially for the family. Even very honest officers fall prey to the charms of a government car which they know pretty well they are not allowed to use. You can find the best pieces of fiction in the log books maintained for government vehicles. When a car is used to transport an officer from his residence to his office or his spouse wherever the spouse wants to go, the officer in charge of the vehicle has to write stories about how the government vehicle was used for official purposes. And these stories have to match with the actual kilometres the vehicle has been used/misused for. </font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The Minister of State for Finance, Mr. S.S. Palanimanickam informed parliament yesterday that,</font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">“Under the Travelling Allowance (TA) rules, reimbursement of taxi/scooter charges for journey for attending office on holidays or for proceeding on official tour is normally admissible only from the headquarter of the employees or their residence in cities with the Urban Agglomeration (UA), from the place of residence in the U.A. to Railway Station/Bus station/Airport and vice-versa. The question of allowing such reimbursement to officials residing in peripheral towns, which are not within the UA limits of the city of their headquarters, does not arise. The Staff Car Rules provide that Staff Cars should not be used for official journey outside the headquarters for which TA is admissible. There is no proposal for amending the TA Rules or Staff Car Rules.”<br> <br> A car is no more a status symbol, but a staff car still is.</font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#006633" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>The Supreme Court is angry</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Even the BBC reported the Supreme Court’s displeasure with the Government on criticism of the Apex Court’s ruling on reservations in private colleges. The Court told the Attorney General,<br> <br> Why are we told time and again by the government that it is not taking a confrontationist attitude?<br> <br> You must advise the government to exercise self-restraint. If that is your attitude then let us do our duty and you continue doing yours.<br> <br> If this is the attitude of the government... wind up the courts and do whatever you want.</font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#006633" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Duplication of nothing</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A Board member visited a field office. “What do you do here?’, he asked an employee. “ I do nothing”, replied the employee. “And what do you do?” he asked another employee. “I don’t do anything”, replied the second employee. “this is wasteful duplication”, he told the Chief Commissioner.<br> <br> <font color="#FF0000"><b>When justice has spoken, humanity must have its turn</b></font><br> <br> <font color="#FF6666"><b>Until tomorrow with more DDT<br> <br> Have a nice day. <br> <br> Mail your comments to</b></font> <b><a href="vijaywrite@taxindiaonline.com">vijaywrite@taxindiaonline.com </a></b></font></p> </body> </html>