1. PASS ON THE GST BENEFITS TO CONSUMERS OR GET LICENSE SCRAPPED: Any business entity that fails to pass on the benefit it derives from lower taxes under GST regime to its consumers, faces penalties and cancellation of  license under the new antiprofiteering rules. The new National Antiprofiteering Authority would be empowered to force reduction in the prices to the extent of lowering of taxes, and impose penalty or even cancel the registration under the Central GST Act in case the benefit is not passed on to the consumers.

2. SUPREME COURT RULING ON AADHAAR-PAN LINKING AND CBDT CLARIFICATION: Further to the ruling by Supreme Court Ruling on the constitutional validity of Aadhaar-PAN linking provision, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has clarified that every tax payer has to quote his Aadhaar number /Aadhaar enrolment ID while applying for obtaining PAN card number and also while filing his/her tax returns from July 1^st

3. RBI INSTRUCTS BANK TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE TRANSACTION DETAILS IN PASSBOOKS: The Reserve Bank of India has instructed all banks to provide “adequate details” in the passbooks and account statements so that the customers can cross check the entries easily. RBI has advised banks to avoid inscrutable entries in the passbooks /statement of accounts and ensure that brief and intelligible particulars are entered with a view to avoid inconvenience to the customers.

4. SEBI RELAXES NORMS FOR LENDERS BUYING STAKE IN DISTRESSED COMPANIES:

5. NO TIMELINE ON IDENTIFYING ADDITIONAL LOAN DEFAULETERS: The RBI Deputy Governor has said that there is no specific timeline set for banks to identify additional defaulters on which bankers would need to start bankruptcy proceedings. Earlier this week the RBI had identified 12 largest loan defaulters to pursue bankruptcy proceedings against them.

6. GOVERNMENT IN TALKS WITH RBI TO DEFER BASEL-III NORMS FOR BANKS: The RBI has laid down norms for implementation of international capital norms or “BASEL-III” norms for Indian Banks by March 2019. According to these norms the banks have to maintain a minimum common equity ratio of 8.5% and total capital ratio of 11.5% by March 2019. However banks are struggling to maintain these ratios as they are saddled with huge bad loans scenario. Considering the current bad loan scenario, the government is in discussion with RBI to explore the possibility to defer the full implementation of “BASEL-III” norms.

7. RECORD INCOME TAX COLLECTIONS THIS YEAR: Net Income Tax collection till June 15^th 2017 grew at a healthy 26.2% to Rs. 1,01,024crore from across the country. Last year up to June 2016 the tax collection was Rs. 80,075 crore.