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– Dayita Kanodia, Executive | finserv@vinodkothari.com
A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay, to guarantee that he can pay.
– Charles Dickens
It is a common practice for companies to issue guarantees for loans taken by their group companies. When transactions happen between related parties, there is always a likelihood of them being not at arm’s length.
Accordingly, this has led to questions that whether such corporate guarantees given without any consideration shall be liable to GST. A Supreme Court ruling issued earlier this year has clarified that corporate guarantees issued without any consideration shall not be liable to service tax.
Therefore while the situation in case of levy of service tax has been clarified by the ruling, the same has led to a lot of ambiguities and questions for the levy of GST on such guarantees. This article aims to clarify the same.
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Vide a 12th Sept notification, the RBI has brought in Master Directions for Classification, Valuation and Operation of Investment Portfolio of Commercial Banks. The new norms bring the accounting and valuation of investments by banks closer to global accounting standards.
While the apparent focus of these Directions would have been valuation of investment portfolios, however, the Directions may also impact investment policies and investment operations of banks as well.
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The recent notification[1] by the RBI permitting banks to provide pre-sanctioned credit facilities to be used by Unified Payment Interface (UPI) is a game changer. The full dimensions of this new mode of extending credit will possibly take some time to develop or demonstrate, but clearly, as UPI itself changed the way the country handles payments, the linking of UPI with pre-sanctioned credit facilities is also a major change.
Currently, UPIs may pull money from the customer’s bank account (current or savings account), overdraft accounts, prepaid wallets or credit cards. Now, UPI may have a linked credit facility as well, and a customer may dip into that credit line while making any payment for which she currently uses UPI.
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One of the trust companies defaults; other casualties likely
Chinese financial system is opaque and intriguing, for any outside trying to understand it. Regulatory framework is also mostly spasmodic, and given the fact that Chinese regulators do not follow global institutions or their regulations, Chinese institutions have developed along their own lines.
One of the non-banking financial entities in China is “trust companies”, somewhat similar to private collective investment vehicles or alternative investment funds seen elsewhere. These trust companies mostly invest in activities closely mimicking the lending of banks, while at the same time not being regulated as such. The size of the shadow banking industry in China, better known as “non banking financial intermediaries” (NBFIs) is huge, and is the second largest in the world, next only to the USA. Of the NBFIs, trust companies were estimated to be about USD 4 trillion, and 79% of the trust companies are based out of China, as per data as of end-December, 2021, appearing in the NBFI report of the Financial Stability Board.
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