Goods and Services Tax : With the advent of GST and dawn of old indirect tax regime in the form of VAT, service tax and central excise etc, the State and...
Income Tax : Any Income derived from a Capital asset movable or immovable is taxable under the head Capital Gains under Income Tax Act 1961. Th...
Income Tax : In scrutiny assessments it is sometimes seen that huge demands are created against the assessee by framing high pitched assessment...
Income Tax : The Scrutiny Assessments under Income Tax Act 1961 are made u/s 143(3). For many years now many of the returns of the assesses are...
Income Tax : Maintenance of books of accounts by Professionals: Section 44AA of Income Tax Act and rule 6F of Income Tax rules deal with the pr...
Goods and Services Tax : Advocate Amit Bajaj Section 27 of the Punjab VAT Act, 2005 has been amended to enhance the rate of Works Contract Tax i.e tax t...
Goods and Services Tax : It is well esteblished principle that the power to levy penality under taxation laws is incidental and ancillary to the power of c...
Goods and Services Tax : Sunyana Sales Corporation Vs State of Punjab (Punjab VAT Tribunal) The Hon’ble Punjab VAT Tribunal allows adjustment of pre-...
Goods and Services Tax : The Hon'ble Punjab & Haryana High Court in a crucial decision has held that input tax credit cannot be disallowed merely for a tec...
Goods and Services Tax : The Hon’ble Supreme Court delivering very important judgment with regard to taxability of inter-state works contract. In the cas...
Goods and Services Tax : Supreme Court, in State of Punjab Vs. M/s. Shreyans Indus Ltd., has held that power of the Sales Tax Commissioner to extend the ti...
Goods and Services Tax : Punjab & Haryana High Court in the case of The Jalandhar Iron and Steel Merchants Association(Regd), Jalandhar vs State of Punjab...
Goods and Services Tax : Punjab Government has notified under Rule 138(14)(d) of Punjab GST Rules, 2017 that e-way bill will not be required to be generate...
Goods and Services Tax : The Government of Punjab has notified the additional services, stipulated time limit, designated officers, first appellate authori...
Goods and Services Tax : Now, therefore, in exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (3) of section 8 of the Punjab Value Added Tax Act, 2005, (Punj...
Goods and Services Tax : The penalty in this case has been levied and further upheld by the lower appellate authority on the ground that providing ATM mach...
Commissioner, VAT, Department of Trade and Taxes, Delhi has issued a circular CIRCULAR No 25 OF 2012-13 dated 14-12-2012 clarifying the taxability of set top boxes under Delhi VAT Act, 2004. It has been mentioned that set top boxes are being supplied by cable operators on lease basis against refundable securities.
C form is a form for the concessional rate of CST on the inter-state sale of goods and is issued by purchasing dealer in one State to the selling dealer in another State for the inter-state sales transactions done during the period of three months i.e a quarter.
As we know the Punjab Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas Act, 2000 was stayed by Punjab & Haryana High Court in Bhushan Power & Steel Limited vs State of Punjab in CWP 15378 of 2008. Thereafter a lot of writ petitions were filed challenging the said act on similar grounds as was in Bhushan Power & Steel case, whereby the Hon’ble High Court in CWP 18609 of 2011 passed the following order
What is reverse charge: Before jumping to the reverse charge mechanism in works contract service, it is important to understand what is reverse charge. Normally service tax is payable by the service provider after charging/collecting the same from the service receiver.
Service portion in the execution of a works contract has been declared as service u/s 66E after the introduction of negative list. That means works contract service per se is not a service but it is a service because it has been declared to be a service u/s 66E. Here an attempt has been made to elaborate on the works contract service after the introduction of negative list.
If the final tax liability of the contractor or sub-contractor is less or nil as the case may be than the tax deduction made u/s 27, then such contractor or sub-contractor must move an application u/s 27(10) to seek Nil or lower rate of tax deduction certificate and in such case granting of NIL/Lower rate of tax deduction certificate will be justified.
Excise & taxation Department, Punjab has levied processing fee of Rs. 800 on every taxable dealer (i.e Person having VAT registration) in Punjab under a new Rule 40-A of Punjab VAT Rules, 2005. This rule provides as under:
Excise and Taxation Department, Punjab has made it mandatory to furnish information regarding intra-state movement of goods (within Punjab) by all persons making sales of Rs. 3 Lakh or above in a single transaction except in the case of Iron and Steel where this threshold shall be Rs. 2 Lakh instead of Rs. 3 Lakh and above.
If the principal contractor is providing an exempt works contract service [for example providing works contract service to Government] then in such case if some part of the works contract is sub-contracted then the sub-contractor would also be exempt from payment of service tax.
It is generally seen in the reassessment proceedings u/s 147 of Income Tax Act, 1961, the assessing officers tend to make inquiries and ask questions even at the start of the reassessment proceedings which are totally unconnected to income that is believed to have escaped assessment in the reasons recorded for reassessment proceedings.
