Here in this article the tax payable in case of works contracts is concentrated on in view of the addition of new provisions in this regards u/s 8 of the PVAT Act 2005. Section 8 of PVAT Act 2005 which deals with the rates of tax has been amended w.e
Refund under Punjab VAT Act 2005 may arise due to many reasons. VAT Refund usually arises to the exporters or the person doing penultimate export i.e. sales against H forms, due to the fact that the export of goods outside India is considered as zero rated sales i.e. not liable for any vat liability and the tax paid on purchase of goods which are to be exported is refunded to the exporters as per provisions of section 18(2) of PVAT act 2005.
Almost all States under their respective VAT laws have made provisions for deduction of VAT from payment to be made to the works contractors at the time of the payment (popularly known as works contract tax or VAT TDS on works contract). The Punjab VAT Act is no exception in this regard. Section 27 of PVAT Act deals with the provisions relating to tax deductions from payments to be made under a works contract.
Central Sales Tax Act 1956 envisages single point of taxation i.e. tax at the first point of sales. Subsequent sales during the movement of the goods from one state to another have been exempted under section 6(2) of CST Act. Before proceeding to understand which sale is exempted under section 6(2) and the conditions for exemption, one should understand some relevant concepts relating to it.
Section 69 of Income Tax Act deals with the cases of unexplained investments which have been made by the assessee but not accounted for in his books of accounts if any maintained and for which no satisfactory explanation is offered by the assessee.
The Excise and Taxation Department, Government of Punjab has amended rule 21 of Punjab VAT rules to add sub rule 2-A in the said rule to provide for that ITC shall be allowed to a taxable person to the extent of tax payable on the resale value of goods or sale value of manufactured/processed goods where such goods are sold below the purchase price in case of resale or cost price in case of manufactured/processed goods. The balance ITC shall be reversed.
For registration under the Punjab VAT Act 2005 one of the requirement u/s 25(1) is furnishing of security for securing the payment of tax under PVAT Act 2005. This requirement is compulsory as per the wording of section 25(1) of PVAT Act 2005 which runs as under: Every person applying for registration under this Act, shall furnish a security of rupees fifty thousand in the manner, prescribed for securing proper and timely payments of tax or any other sum, payable by him under this Act: Provided that the security already furnished by a person registered under the repealed Act, shall be deemed to have been furnished under this Act.
under CST Act as lot of Assessments are pending under VAT and CST Acts and many dealers are facing problems in getting and producing the C forms for finalization of their assessments. Some important issues relating to the C forms are discussed as below for the benefit of dealers all around India:
Goods and Service tax (GST) is the most talked about topic in the field of indirect taxation today in India. Everybody is keenly waiting for the proposed GST draft which will replace the existing system of VAT in India. The central government wants the GST to be implemented in India by 1st April, 2011. Although there are and will be been many hurdles which are to be crossed before GST is implemented in India.
T.D.S means the Tax deducted at source. Whenever a person liable to deduct tax of another person under Income Tax Act, deducts tax, the credit of such tax is given to the deductee when his liability to pay income tax is calculated. Such credit is given on the basis of the information given by the deductor to the Income Tax Department by way of filing his T.D.S statements, wherein the full detail about the tax deducted, the PAN No of deductee etc are given, so that the right credit of T.D.S can be given to the deductee.