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About 38 per cent or Rs 26.22 in petrol price of Rs 68.64 a litre in Delhi is because of central and state government taxes. State-owned oil firms had last week hiked petrol price by Rs 1.80 a litre, the fifth increase this year as oil imports became costlier due to fall in rupee value. The new rate is based on a basic price of petrol, without including any taxes, refining cost or margin, of Rs 41.38 per litre, oil company officials said. Full Article

Consumers will have to pay more for sugar and textiles as States on Friday decided to impose four-five per cent value added tax (VAT) on sugar and textiles from the beginning of next fiscal. A move that will shore up their state governments revenue, but also stoke inflationary pressures. Full Article

Jammu and Kashmir Governor N N Vohra has promulgated an Ordinance introducing amendments to the VAT Act, 2005, making cross Line of Control (LoC) trade tax-free for goods manufactured in the state. The Ordinance was promulgated by the Governor yesterday on the recommendations of Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as the Assembly is not in session. Full Article

The government will come out with a draft 'negative list' for service tax in two weeks, meaning services which are not mentioned in it would be taxed under the proposed GST regime. The draft paper (on negative list of services) is nearly ready and you should see this paper in two weeks, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, V K Garg, told PTI. Full Article

The Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) today said that tax rates under the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime in India is likely to be between 16% and 20%. Full Article

Maharashtra government on Wednesday exempted transfer of copyrights of a film -- relating to the exhibition in theatres -- from VAT. This was announced in the Legislative assembly during the State budget presentation, Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Ajit Pawar. He said VAT was currently levied on transfer of copyright of films for the purpose of exhibition in theatres. Full Article

Tax Evasions lead to deceleration in VAT revenues-study Full Article

Effective 07 December, 2010, the rate of VAT in Meghalaya has been enhanced, as mentioned below: Goods falling under Schedule II and liable to tax at 4% Rate up to 6 December, 2010 – 4% Rate with effect from 7 December, 2010 – 5% Source-  No.ERTS (T) 12/2010/30,dated 07 December, 2010 Full Article