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As per the clarification issued by the Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, in exercise of the power conferred on him under Section 28A of the TNGST Act, the benefit of sales tax deferral scheme would be available to a dealer from the date of reaching of BPV or BSV, whichever is earlier. It is trite law that circulars issued by the revenue are binding on the departmental authorities and they cannot be permitted to repudiate the same on the plea that it is inconsistent with the statutory provisions or it mitigates the rigour of the law.
State of Tamil Nadu & ANR. Vs. India Cements Ltd. & ANR. -The Supreme Court last week dismissed the appeal of the Tamil Nadu government which denied sales tax benefits to India Cements Ltd. The high court had held that the cement firm was entitled to the benefit of deferral of sales tax as claimed by it under the interest free sales tax deferral scheme.
I had given a clarification two days back in an article titled ‘PVAT Act 2005 – Declared Goods except wheat and paddy will be taxable @ 4.4% w.e.f 08/04/2011’ that surchage is also applicable on declared goods other than Paddy and wheat, since the ceiling rate of tax was enhanced from 4% to 5% by the Central govt in the Budget of 2011-12.
Maharashtra government is expecting an entertainment tax of Rs 15 crore from the 16 Indian Premier League (IPL) matches to be held in the state. “A deposit of Rs 7.3 crore has been collected for the IPL matches organised at the Wankhede stadium in the city out of the expected revenue of Rs 9.50 crore,” Minister of State for Revenue Prakash Solanke informed the Legislative Council today.
Although there has been a news in a leading Hindi Newspaper that in an ongoing case pending in P&H HC namely Bhushan Steel v. State of Punjab, the Hon’ble High Court has stayed the operation of entry tax in Punjab, but the collection of entry tax is still going on in Punjab. This withdrawal of entry tax on sugar would be a relief for the importers of sugar in State of Punjab.
Ceiling rate on declared goods have been enhanced from 4% to 5% by Central Govt in the Budget of 2011-12. Which follows that rate of tax on declared goods cannot exceed 5%. Rate of tax on paddy and wheat has been enhanced by the Punjab Govt from 4% to 5% by including these goods in schedule B of PVAT Act 2005.
Wheat and Paddy which are declared goods under CST Act 1956, have been added to schedule B of Punjab VAT Act 2005. The goods contained in schedule B of PVAT act 2005 are taxable @ 5%. An additional surcharge @ 10% is also applicable. But such surcharge will not be applicable on wheat and paddy since these goods are declared goods as per section 14 of CST Act 1956.
With a view to provide significant relief to diamond merchants, the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (‘MCGM’) which is the municipal authority governing the jurisdiction of Mumbai, has come out with a circular (Circular No. AC/8/OSSC dated 31 March 2011) to reduce the rate of octroi on Gems and Jewellery items from 2% to 0.01% advalorem. The Standing Committee / Corporation of the MCGM vide their resolution under SCR No. 1461 dated 11 March 2011 & CR No. 1122 dated 29 March 2011 have accorded their approval to reduce the rate of octroi from 2% advalorem to 0.01% advalorem for the gems and jewellery items effective at the point of import at the Custom Station/s of Mumbai with effect from 1 April 2011.
Section 50(2) of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 provides for claiming the refund at the end of financial year and does not permit the dealer to carry forward the refund to the next financial year. Considering the difficulties faced by the trade, it was administratively decided to permit such adjustment for the year 2009-10 as per Trade Circular 1ST of 2010 dated 15.04.2010.
Section 65(53a) of the Finance Act, 1994, read with section 4 of the Karnataka VAT Act, 2003 – Information Technology Service – April, 2009 to March, 2010 – Assessee entered into agreements with its clients for development of software – Asses see provided its staff who were well-trained in field and who would develop software according to specification of customer – In terms of agreement even before development of software assessee had given up all rights and claims of software to be developed and had expressly agreed that such a software which may come into existence at end of contract period was absolute property of customer
