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...
Calcutta High Court in Cipla Limited vs Deputy Commissioner, Commercial Tax reported as VSTI 2013 Vol. 17 B-509 has held that There is nothing in Rule 12(5) of CST (R&T) Rules which could be construed to vitiate a declaration form i.e “F” form on a ground that such declaration form covered transactions for a period […]
Punjab VAT Tribunal in Olam Agro India Limited vs State of Punjab (2013) 21 STM 128 has held that extension of time limit u/s 29 of Punjab VAT Act, 2005 from 3 years to 6 years, for making assessment of a person, by giving a public notice on the website of the department, is not […]
Punjab Government has revised the amount of processing fee leviable under rule 40-A of the Punjab VAT Rules, 2005. Rule 40-A earlier envisages payment of annual processing fee of Rs. 800/- by every taxable person under the Punjab VAT Act, 2005. Now the different amount of processing fee have been defined for different persons based […]
The Commissioner Excise and Taxation Punjab has issued a clarification that Goods and Materials obtained from cutting of old ships and boats as well as the heavy melting scrap are covered under the entry iron and steel for the purposes of E-trip.
As the news has been coming that a lump sum tax scheme under Punjab VAT Act, 2005 for plywood industries will be soon notified, the plywood therefore has been exempted from the list of specified goods for the purpose of e-trip.
What is E-Trip and E-ICC: E-trip and E-ICC has come into force w.e.f 01-08-2013 in Punjab. E-trip is the reporting of intra-state and E-ICC is the reporting of inter-state transactions meant for trade under section 51 of Punjab VAT Act. 2005 on the virtual information collection centre on the official website of the Excise & Taxation […]
Few days back I had written an article namely Etrip in Punjab-an Uncontrolled delegated legislation in which I had raised a point that while giving discretionary power to the Commissioner to specify the goods for the purpose of Etrip certain policy should or guidelines should have been laid down
Introduction: Entry Tax is a tax levied under the Punjab Tax on Entry of Goods into Local Areas Act, 2000. It is levied u/s 3-A of the said Act on a dealer who is bringing the goods into local areas of Punjab.Entry tax can be claimed as input tax credit by a person paying such […]
Punjab Government levied an annual processing fee of Rs. 800 last year by way of Rule 40-A of Punjab VAT Rules, 2005 on all the taxable persons. Rule 40-A of Punjab VAT Rules, 2005 runs as under:
The area of trade, commerce and business is at present under a rigourous administrative regulation. Broad powers to regulate trade and commerce have been conferred on administrative authorities through statutes or rules. Legislature sometimes leave a large amount of discretion in the hands of administrative authorities. Legislation conferring powers on the executive sometimes is drafted […]