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In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (46) of section 10 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (43 of 1961), the Central Government hereby notifies for the purposes of the said clause, ‘State Legal Service Authority Union Territory Chandigarh’ (PAN: AAAGS1716A), an Authority constituted by the Administrator, Union Territory, Chandigarh under the Legal Services Authority Act, 1987 (Central Act 39 of 1987), in respect of the following specified income arising to the said Authority, as follows:

(a) Grants received from the Punjab and Haryana High Court, Central Authority i.e. National Legal Services Authority constituted under Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987;

(b) Grants or donation received from the Central Government or the State Government of Punjab/Haryana for the purpose of the Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987;

(c) Amount received under the order of the court;

(d) Fees received as recruitment application fee; and

(e) Interest earned on bank deposits.

2. This notification shall be effective subject to the conditions that State Legal Service Authority Union Territory Chandigarh –

(a) shall not engage in any commercial activity;

(b) activities and the nature of the specified income shall remain unchanged throughout the financial years; and

(c) shall file return of income in accordance with the provision of clause (g) of sub-section (4C) of section 139 of the Income-tax Act, 1961.

3. This notification shall be deemed to have been applied for assessment years 2021-2022, 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 relevant for the financial years 2020-2021, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 respectively.

Explanatory Memorandum

It is certified that no person is being adversely affected by giving retrospective effect to this notification.

Notification No. 14/2024 dated 23rd January, 2024

In the notifications of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue (Central Board of Direct Taxes), published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), bearing number S.O. 2774(E) dated the 9th July, 2021, S.O. 2826(E) dated 14th July, 2021, S.O. 4523(E) dated 29^th October, 2021, S.O. 4525(E) dated 29th October, 2021, S.O. 73(E) dated 6th January, 2022, S.O. 1769(E) dated 11th April, 2022, S.O. 1977(E) dated 28th April, 2022, S.O. 1044(E) dated 3rd March, 2023, S.O. 1690(E) dated 10^th April, 2023 and S.O. 2155(E) dated 10th May, 2023, the paragraph 3 shall be read as the following, namely,-

“This notification shall be deemed to have been applied for the financial year 2020-2021 to financial year 2024-2025 relevant to the assessment year 2021-2022 to assessment year 2025-2026.”

And

In the notification of the Government of India, Ministry of Finance, Department of Revenue (Central Board of Direct Taxes), published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), bearing number S.O. 1585(E) dated the 1st April, 2023, the paragraph 3 shall be read as the following, namely,

“This notification shall be deemed to have been applied for the financial year 2020-2021 to financial year 2022-2023 relevant to the assessment year 2021-2022 to assessment year 2023-2024.”

Explanatory Memorandum

It is certified that no person is being adversely affected by giving retrospective effect to this notification.

Notification No. 05/2024 – Customs dated 22^nd January 2024

In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), read with section 124 of the Finance Act, 2021 (13 of 2021), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendments in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue) No. 11/2021 – Customs, dated the 1st February, 2021, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3,Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 69(E), dated the 1st February, 2021, namely:-

In the said notification, in the Table, after Sl. No. 15D and the entries relating thereto, the following Sl. Nos. and entries shall be inserted, namely

Mandatory Bank Account Details Submission as per law: All Registered Taxpayers are required under the provisions of CGST Act, 2017 and the corresponding Rules framed thereunder to furnish details of their bank account/s within 30 days of the grant of registration or before the due date of filing GSTR-1/IFF, whichever is earlier.

Taxpayers are therefore advised to promptly furnish their bank account details, who have not provided it so far if 30 Days period is shortly going to expire to avoid disruption in business activities and the subsequent suspension of GSTIN.

A new functionality is being developed with the following features and will be deployed in near future:-

1.Failure to furnish the bank account in the stipulated time: It would result into following:

a) Taxpayer Registration would get suspended after 30 days and intimation in FORM REG-31 will be issued to the Taxpayer.

b) Get the Taxpayer debarred from filing any further GSTR-1/IFF.

2.Revocation of Suspension: If the taxpayer updates their bank account details in response to the intimation in FORM REG-31, the suspension will be automatically revoked.

3.Cancellation of Registration: If the bank account details are not updated even after 30 days of issuance of FORM REG-31, the registration after suspension may also be taken up for cancellation process by the Officer.

Taxpayers are requested to take immediate action to provide the necessary information and avoid any adverse consequences.