The penalty in this case has been levied and further upheld by the lower appellate authority on the ground that providing ATM machine to bank after bringing them from outside the State of Punjab, is a transfer of right to use goods and is covered by the definition of sale as per Section 2 (zf) (iv) of the Punjab Value Added Tax Act, 2005
Punjab Government has withdrawn the Entry tax under the Punjab Tax on Entry of Goods into Local areas Act, 2000, which was under judicial scrutiny and was cause of continous litigation between the Government and the VAT dealers across the State.
Punjab Government has notified goods u/s 6(7) of the Punjab VAT Act, 2005 on which Advance VAT will be recovered. Section 6(8) of the Punjab VAT Act, 2005 earlier considered Entry Tax as deemed advance VAT.
Calcutta High Court in Cipla Limited vs Deputy Commissioner, Commercial Tax reported as VSTI 2013 Vol. 17 B-509 has held that There is nothing in Rule 12(5) of CST (R&T) Rules which could be construed to vitiate a declaration form i.e “F” form on a ground that such declaration form covered transactions for a period […]
Punjab VAT Tribunal in Olam Agro India Limited vs State of Punjab (2013) 21 STM 128 has held that extension of time limit u/s 29 of Punjab VAT Act, 2005 from 3 years to 6 years, for making assessment of a person, by giving a public notice on the website of the department, is not […]
Punjab Government has revised the amount of processing fee leviable under rule 40-A of the Punjab VAT Rules, 2005. Rule 40-A earlier envisages payment of annual processing fee of Rs. 800/- by every taxable person under the Punjab VAT Act, 2005. Now the different amount of processing fee have been defined for different persons based […]
The Commissioner Excise and Taxation Punjab has issued a clarification that Goods and Materials obtained from cutting of old ships and boats as well as the heavy melting scrap are covered under the entry iron and steel for the purposes of E-trip.
As the news has been coming that a lump sum tax scheme under Punjab VAT Act, 2005 for plywood industries will be soon notified, the plywood therefore has been exempted from the list of specified goods for the purpose of e-trip.
What is E-Trip and E-ICC: E-trip and E-ICC has come into force w.e.f 01-08-2013 in Punjab. E-trip is the reporting of intra-state and E-ICC is the reporting of inter-state transactions meant for trade under section 51 of Punjab VAT Act. 2005 on the virtual information collection centre on the official website of the Excise & Taxation […]
Few days back I had written an article namely Etrip in Punjab-an Uncontrolled delegated legislation in which I had raised a point that while giving discretionary power to the Commissioner to specify the goods for the purpose of Etrip certain policy should or guidelines should have been laid down
