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Certain have been using fake hawala bills to inflate their turnover, a sales tax department investigation has found. Achievement of a certain level of turnover is an entry-level criterion for companies to bid for such big-ticket (multicrore) projects...

A tax evasion racket involving over 400 firms, most of which are based in the city, has come to light. The state sales tax department, which busted the racket, claimed that its initial assessment showed that the racket involved transactions worth Rs ...

Tickets for entertainment programmes and cricket matches would be costlier in rural areas of Maharashtra as the state government today decided to levy 10 per cent entertainment tax. "The government is introducing 10 per cent entertainment tax outsi...

The Supreme Court today directed the Defence Ministry and the Karnataka government to meet and resolve their dispute over Rs 1,519 crore sales tax on defence contracts executed by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL)....

With different tax rates leading to fuel prices varying from state to state, the oil industry has demanded inclusion of crude oil and its products, and natural gas in the reformist GST (Goods and Services Tax) regime. Petrofed, a body representing bo...

The Karnataka high court has directed IT bellwether Wipro Ltd to deposit Rs 24 crore (Rs 240 million) by Wednesday evening in a case of tax on re-export of software, a company official admitted. As the company did not comply with the court's order of...

The government’s move to offer fresh excise duty exemptions to companies already enjoying a tax holiday in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand is blatantly wrong. It does damage to the goal of having a harmonised goods and services tax, to the economic ...

Replying to the West Bengal Taxation Laws (Second Amendment) Bill, 2010, Finance Minister Asim Dasgupta said although the Centre allowed the states to increase both 4 per cent and 12.5 per cent slabs of VAT by one per cent, the state government did n...

Tax Evasions lead to deceleration in VAT revenues-study...

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...