maharashtra

Below is an extract of significant tax proposals by Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Delhi, Goa, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir, Maharashtra, Meghalaya, Rajasthan and Uttarakhand States in their State Budget announced in March, 2011: Full Article

The Maharashtra Sales Tax department is taking steps to apply more caution while disposing of VAT refund applications following discovery of a major refund scam involving officers of the department and traders in Palghar recently. Speaking at an even Full Article

The Maharashtra Government has decided to impose an environment tax on 15 lakh private vehicles registered in the State which are more that 15 years old and six lakh goods and transport vehicles that are more than eight years old. Full Article

With effect from financial year 2010-11, the threshold of gross turnover for getting the accounts audited has been enhanced from Rs. 40 lakhs to Rs. 60 lakhs. Further, dealers covered under the Package Scheme of Incentives are required to get their accounts audited irrespective of turnover limit. Full Article

Cricket won’t get any more free hits in Maharashtra. Rapped by the Bombay high court and the Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) for the entertainment tax waiver on the IPL matches, the Maharashtra government has finally decided to levy the duty henceforth. And not just the IPL matches played in state but all other cricket encounters will attract the applicable entertainment duty. However, the state cannot recover the loss it has incurred on account of tax waiver for t.. Full Article

Cricket is now officially an entertainment sport. Forty-five years after it declared horse racing as entertainment, the state government has decided to add cricket to the list. Besides cricket, pubs, discotheques, internet protocol television (IPTV) and permit rooms with a live orchestra (dance bars earlier) will also attract a similar tax. There are 22 discotheques in Maharashtra, of which 20 are in Mumbai city, Mumbai suburbs and Thane. Only two are in Pune. Full Article

This office had issued above referred Trade Circulars explaining scope of section 6A of CST Act, 1956. In the Trade Circular dated 20th February 2007, a view had been taken that section 6A of CST Act, 1956 deals only with transactions between principal and agent and that it applies in those cases where the movement of goods is to the place of business of the dealer himself in another state or to his agent or his principal in another state. It was viewed that section 6A d.. Full Article

The ready reckoner is a guide for the market price of residential and commercial properties, based on which stamp duty and registration fee for their sale and purchase are calculated. Under the revised rates, a land owner would have to pay more stamp duty because his land got more expensive; the developer would raise the sale price of his finished property since his land acquisition cost got higher; and a retail buyer would have to cough up more for property, stamp duty .. Full Article