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...
Central Sales Tax Act 1956 envisages single point of taxation i.e. tax at the first point of sales. Subsequent sales during the movement of the goods from one state to another have been exempted under section 6(2) of CST Act. Before proceeding to understand which sale is exempted under section 6(2) and the conditions for exemption, one should understand some relevant concepts relating to it.
Section 69 of Income Tax Act deals with the cases of unexplained investments which have been made by the assessee but not accounted for in his books of accounts if any maintained and for which no satisfactory explanation is offered by the assessee.
The Excise and Taxation Department, Government of Punjab has amended rule 21 of Punjab VAT rules to add sub rule 2-A in the said rule to provide for that ITC shall be allowed to a taxable person to the extent of tax payable on the resale value of goods or sale value of manufactured/processed goods where such goods are sold below the purchase price in case of resale or cost price in case of manufactured/processed goods. The balance ITC shall be reversed.
For registration under the Punjab VAT Act 2005 one of the requirement u/s 25(1) is furnishing of security for securing the payment of tax under PVAT Act 2005. This requirement is compulsory as per the wording of section 25(1) of PVAT Act 2005 which runs as under: Every person applying for registration under this Act, shall furnish a security of rupees fifty thousand in the manner, prescribed for securing proper and timely payments of tax or any other sum, payable by him under this Act: Provided that the security already furnished by a person registered under the repealed Act, shall be deemed to have been furnished under this Act.
under CST Act as lot of Assessments are pending under VAT and CST Acts and many dealers are facing problems in getting and producing the C forms for finalization of their assessments. Some important issues relating to the C forms are discussed as below for the benefit of dealers all around India:
Goods and Service tax (GST) is the most talked about topic in the field of indirect taxation today in India. Everybody is keenly waiting for the proposed GST draft which will replace the existing system of VAT in India. The central government wants the GST to be implemented in India by 1st April, 2011. Although there are and will be been many hurdles which are to be crossed before GST is implemented in India.
T.D.S means the Tax deducted at source. Whenever a person liable to deduct tax of another person under Income Tax Act, deducts tax, the credit of such tax is given to the deductee when his liability to pay income tax is calculated. Such credit is given on the basis of the information given by the deductor to the Income Tax Department by way of filing his T.D.S statements, wherein the full detail about the tax deducted, the PAN No of deductee etc are given, so that the right credit of T.D.S can be given to the deductee.
The Punjab Govt has imposed entry tax on some new items and rate of entry tax on certain items has been revised. These revised rates of entry tax and imposition of entry tax on new items will come into force w.e.f 18/08/2010. The new items and revised rate of entry tax is given here below in the public notice issued by the Punjab Government.
There are many presumptive income schemes for small businessmen engaged in civil construction, transport business, retailers etc. A person covered under these schemes can declare his income under these sections on presumptive basis and can get himself free from the requirement of maintaining regular books of accounts u/s 44AA.
There are many sections under the Punjab VAT Act where the word Designated officers is used. Many powers under the Punjab VAT Act 2005 like of assessments, levying penalties etc. have been conferred on the Designated Officers. These Designated officers are appointed and conferred powers under section 3 of Punjab VAT Act 2005.
