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Goods and Services Tax : West Bengal's GST share dropped from 4.6% in 2019-20 to 4% in 2024-25. Learn about factors affecting revenue, government measures,...
Goods and Services Tax : Government addresses GST exemption on health & life insurance premiums, forming a GoM for review. Key updates on current exemption...
Goods and Services Tax : The government addresses GST complexities with reforms, fraud crackdowns, and MSME compliance relief. Learn about tax slabs, exemp...
Goods and Services Tax : GST on leased properties remains at 18%. Recent changes exclude composition taxpayers from reverse charge liability. No central da...
Goods and Services Tax : GST on commercial training is 18%, while educational institutions' services and books are exempt. Details of GST collection and me...
Goods and Services Tax : Orissa High Court permits relief to petitioner in OGST case, allowing tax compliance and appeal consideration despite procedural d...
Goods and Services Tax : Orissa HC permits GST registration revocation if dues are paid. Assessee can apply for restoration per prior legal precedent....
Goods and Services Tax : Bombay HC allows appeal against tax order despite bank account lien. Court orders transfer of funds, pre-deposit for appeal, balan...
Goods and Services Tax : Calcutta HC directs the Appellate Authority to consider GST appeal delay condonation due to COVID-19 hardships, ensuring procedura...
Goods and Services Tax : Orissa HC directs tax authorities to consider the assessee’s belated reply before initiating GST recovery proceedings, ensuring ...
Goods and Services Tax : New GST registration rules require biometric or Aadhaar authentication at GSK. Complete verification within 15 days to avoid ARN r...
Goods and Services Tax : The Ministry of Finance has notified the implementation dates for specific provisions of the GST Amendment Rules, 2024. Key rules ...
Goods and Services Tax : CBIC detects Rs. 18.10 crore GST evasion in real estate and organizes a CPR training workshop for officers. Post-Budget discussion...
Goods and Services Tax : Maharashtra establishes GST Suvidha Kendra for Aadhaar-based biometric authentication and document verification for new GST regist...
Goods and Services Tax : Clarified procedure for appeals under Section 128A of CGST Act 2017, addressing disputes on interest and penalty where tax is full...
Sales Tax – Indirect Tax – U.P. Trade Tax Act, 1948 – Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 – Exemption – Notification No. 1166 dt. 10.4.2000 – Assessee, engaged in the manufacture and sales of various ‘scientific and biological equipments/instruments’, claimed goods sold by it were exempted from tax in view of the notification no. 1166 – Assessing Authority (AO) held that the assessee was not entitled to get exemption under the aforesaid notification and the impugned goods of the assessee were liable to be taxed at the rate of 10% as unclassified goods
Recently Supreme Court set aside the judgement of the Allahabad high court which had granted exemption from trade tax to a firm which was engaged in the manufacture and sale of various scientific and biological equipment used by scientists for research purposes. In the case, Commissioner of Trade Tax vs Kartos International, the revenue authorities demanded 10 per cent tax, but the company challenged it invoking a 2000 notification arguing that it was entitled to the benefit under the Central Sales Tax and also because it was engaged in inter-state sales made to various government institutions. The Supreme Court ruled that the company was not entitled to the benefit as the notification covered maps, educational charts, mechanical drawings and biology equipment used in schools and colleges. Goods used by research institutions are not eligible for the tax benefits, the court ruled.
The Government of Maharashtra has issued Notification No. VAT 1510/CR-165/Taxation-1 dated 20 December 2010 in pursuance of the powers conferred under rule 45A of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Rules, 2005. As per the said notification, the dealers liable to file six-monthly returns under Maharashtra Value Added Tax (‘MVAT’) laws shall make payments electronically with effect from 31 March 2011 of any amount under Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002.
Commissioner of Commercial Taxes & Ors. Vs. Chitrahar Traders- The buyer of Neyveli Lignite Corporation, a central government undertaking which was sold as scrap, was entitled to pay a lower sales tax, the Supreme Court ruled. It dismissed the appeal of the Commissioner of Commercial Taxes against the ruling of the Madras high court which stated that the levy should take into account that the machinery was total scrap. Since the plant and machinery had outlived its utility, the government appointed Metal Scrap and Trading Corporation Ltd, a government enterprise, to sell them as scrap. It arranged an e-auction in which Chitrahar Traders bid the highest amount. The revenue department then demanded 12 per cent and surcharge as sales tax stating that what was sold was plant and machinery; not scrap. The buyer contended that only 4 per cent could be levied at the rate stipulated for scrap. In fact, it had to use explosives to remove machinery embedded in earth since 1961 and which became utterly useless by 2001. The high court and the Supreme Court accepted the contention of the scrap buyer.
Finance Ministry will soon come out with a discussion paper on service tax to increase its contribution to the overall tax kitty and align it with the proposed Goods and Services Tax (GST). “The Finance Ministry is working on a discussion paper on taxation of services to get opinion and feedback before moving to GST,” a source told PTI.
Constitution (One Hundred and Fifteenth Amendment), Bill, 2011 (GST Bill) as introduced in the Parliament on 22 March 2011, deals with key transaction taxes in India. The proposed GST Bill, inter alia seeks to introduce articles effecting the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) and the introduction of the GST Council. As per the existing structure of indirect taxation, the Parliament has the power to make laws on the manufacture of goods and the provision of services (Union List) while the State Legislatures have the power to make laws on the sale and purchase of goods within their respective states (State List). The Parliament has retained the exclusivity to make laws pertaining to sale of goods in the course of inter-state trade or commerce.
Bihar government has decided to impose professional tax on central and state governments officers and employees, Railways, boards and corporation on the pattern of Maharashtra, West Bengal and other states, official sources said today. The state assembly adopted the Bihar Profession, Trade, Livelihood and Employment Tax Bill, 2011, yesterday paving the way for the imposition of the tax.
In SCHEDULE A,—(a) in entry 9A, in column (2), for the figures, letters and words “31st March 2011 or the date on which the Goods and Services Tax Act comes into force, whichever is earlier” the figures, letters and word “31st March 2012” shall be substituted ; (b) in entry 51, in column (2), for the figures, letters and words “31st March 2011 or the date on which the Goods and Services Tax Act comes into force, whichever is earlier” the figures, letters and word “31st March 2012” shall be substituted.
Effective 01 April, 2011, the rate of VAT in Orissa has been enhanced, as mentioned below: Goods falling under Part III of Schedule B and liable to tax at 12.5% will be taxable at 13.50 % from 01.04.2011. Source: Notification No. 12390-CTA-7/2011-F, dated 26 March, 2011
Assistant Commercial Taxes Officer Versus M/s Makkad Plastic Agencies- The assessment of the assessee-respondent for the Assessment Year 2001-02 was completed by the Assessing Officer under Section 29(7) of the Rajasthan Sales Tax Act, 1994 [for short “the Act of 1994”] holding that the tax on “thermo ware” and “vacuum ware”, which were the articles sold by the assessee-respondent during the relevant assessment year, should be levied Sales Tax at 10 per cent instead of 8 per cent, treating them as separate articles from plastic goods/products. Consequently, the liability of difference of tax at 2 per cent along with surcharge, interest and penalty was also levied.
