Goods and service Tax News, Articles and Notification

SC set aside the assessment of VAT under the Karnataka Value Added Tax Act, on the sale of liquor and other imported goods at Bangalore International Airport by Hotel Ashoka, run by the India Tourism Development Corporation. At these duty free shops, the hotel sells several articles including liquor to foreigners and also to Indians, who are going abroad or coming to India by air. Full Article

Maharashtra Sales tax Department on its website hosted the List of Suspicious Dealers who has issued false bills without delivery of goods on its website. Sales Tax Department has first issued a list of 698 Dealers around a month back on 21.11.2011. Now the Sales tax Department has issued Additional List list of dealers who it is suspected List of Suspicious Dealers who has issued false bills without delivery of goods. The List can be downloaded from the Links GIven be.. Full Article

The Internet Service Provider for website of the Maharashtra Sales Tax department is M/s Airtel Major fire broke out in one of the network centers of the said service provider on 27.12.2011. Due to the fire, the web site www.mahavt.gov.in was not available through internet from 27/12/2011 to 30/12/2011. Full Article

The dealers under the MVAT Act 2002 and the CST Act 1956 are successfully using the facility of filing electronic returns and making e payments on www.mahavat.gov.in. the web site of Maharashtra Sales Tax department (MSTD) This facility was to be provided to the profession tax registration certificate holders (PTRC) and the profession tax enrollment certificate holders (PTEC). The Profession Tax Act was accordingly amended w.e.f. 1st May 2010 by inserting section 7A to p.. Full Article

The Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers here today demanded that the upper limit on levying the professional tax be removed. The panel after deliberating on the issue of professional tax came to the conclusion that the upper limit of Rs 2,500 imposed by the Constitution in 1988 should be waived [removed] forever, Full Article

The Empowered Committee of State''s Finance Ministers on GST today agreed in principle to the concept of services tax based on the 'negative list' and suggested that the Centre could prepare such a list which would help widen the tax base. The committee headed by Deputy Chief Minister of Bihar Sushi Kumar Modi met here today to deliberate on the concept paper of taxation of services based on the negative list. Full Article

Hindustan Zinc Ltd. Vs. State of Rajasthan and anr. (Jodhpur High Court) - Court is of the opinion that even though in the era of E-filing of the returns under the various laws, such a practice deserves to be encouraged and is acceptable form of filing of returns to the various Tax Department, it is admitted position before this Court that relevant Rules for filing of soft copies of these returns viz. VAT-07, VAT-08 and VAT-9, particularly assessment year 2007-2008 and .. Full Article

To constitute interstate sales, one of the basic requirement is that there should be sale. If a person sends goods outside from its state to its branch office in another state then it is not sale because you cannot sell goods to yourself. Similarly if a dealer sends goods to its agent in another state who stocks and sells goods on behalf of the dealer, such agent is called consignment agent and such stock transfer is also not considered as interstate sales since there is.. Full Article