Goods and Services Tax : SC allows Interstate Purchase of goods under the CST Act for Manufacturing, Mining etc against ‘C’ Forms in GST Scen...
Goods and Services Tax : Supreme Court declined to interfere in Revenue’s Special Leave Petitions, for use of 'C' Forms of the Central Sales Tax Act, 195...
Goods and Services Tax : There is no concept of constructive delivery either express or implied in section 3 of Central Sales Tax Act”. Hence, benefit ca...
Goods and Services Tax : Article discusses Whether Form ‘C’ should be made available to an assessee even after implementation of the goods and services...
Goods and Services Tax : Central Sales Tax Act 1956 envisages single point of taxation i.e tax at the first point of sales. Subsequent sales during the mov...
Goods and Services Tax : Request to announce Tax Amnesty Scheme / one time settlement scheme for pending demand, disputes, appeals, litigations and recover...
Goods and Services Tax : AIMTPA has written a letter to Commissioner of State Tax and brought to his attention issues being faced during assessments under ...
Goods and Services Tax : Extension of due date of furnishing of declaration form due to COVID-19 effect Sir the last date of filing of declaration forms...
Goods and Services Tax : Waiver of Late Fee for late filing of VAT and CST returns in Maharashtra The Trade has represented that many technical difficultie...
Goods and Services Tax : CII suggested the removal of anomalies in customs duty and reducing the CST rate from 2% to 1% due to the delay in implementation ...
Goods and Services Tax : NCLAT Delhi held that provisions of section 9(2) of the CST Act doesn’t create statutory charge on the assets of the Corporate D...
Goods and Services Tax : The Allahabad High Court ruled that parts replaced during warranty and AMC periods are taxable, applying the Supreme Court's Tata ...
Goods and Services Tax : Court held that C-Forms could not be refused solely because inter-state purchases were mistakenly omitted from revised returns. Th...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court accepted a previously rejected Form F worth ₹6.29 crore after verifying its authenticity. It held that genuine branch ...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court ruled that tyres and tubes were part of the registered spare-parts list, validating the Tribunal’s decision to cancel ...
Goods and Services Tax : The State Tax Department allowed taxpayers to pay profession tax using PAN after system migration caused portal access issues. Reg...
Goods and Services Tax : Finance Ministry notifies DGGI ADG as nodal officer under IT Rules and designates Afcom Holdings as Indian carrier under Central S...
Goods and Services Tax : Learn about Madhya Pradeshs extension of appeal disposal deadline to March 31, 2025, impacting VAT, CST, and other related acts....
Goods and Services Tax : The scope of C-Form facility for inter-state purchase of the above six goods is examined in the light of the amended provision of ...
Goods and Services Tax : Manual filing of Appeal Applications, is being replaced by online automated filing of Appeal Applications under VAT and CST Act. A...
M/S. Hyderabad Engineering vs State Of A.P. on 4 March, 2011 (Supreme Court of India) -Finally, the Supreme court concluded by observing that following scenarios are covered under “inter-state sales” “Sale” or “agreement to sell” occasions movement of goods from one state to another (irrespective of whether such movement has been provided in the agreement) or Order placed before HO or branch resulted in movement of goods from one state to another (irrespective of state where property in goods passes). Thus, it is not necessary that sale must precede movement of goods or the fact of movement of goods is mentioned in the agreement [Para 32]. Thus, even an agreement to sell can now result in classification of such transfers as “inter-state sales” and not “branch transfer”.
It has been proposed in the Budget 2011-12 to increase the ceiling of 4% on declared goods under section 15 of CST Act to 5%. Currently State Governments cannot levy VAT more than 4% on declared goods. Declared goods are those goods which are of special importance and have been defined u/s 14 of CST Act 1956. This increase has been made in view of recent increase in the VAT slab rate of 4% to 5% by many states.
Neither the State Government can impose tax/vat on sales of goods in the course of import or export nor CST Act 1956 imposes any tax on such sales. Here in this article exemptions available on Penultimate export sales under CST Act 1956 are concentrated on:
Section 8(6),8(7) and 8(8) of the CST Act deals with the exemptions available to a SEZ unit or SEZ developer from CST. When goods are sold to a SEZ unit or SEZ developer then no CST is payable by such unit or developer as per the above sub sections subject to fulfillment of certain conditions. The conditions and forms relating to such exemption are provided as follows for the benefit of all concerned.
The Government today approved Rs 7,029 crore compensation to states for the losses they suffered due to reduction in central sales tax (CST) rate in 2010-11.The Union Cabinet , chaired by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh , has approved a proposal for pr
The sub-section (1) of section 20 has been amended to provide for appeal to the Central Sales Tax Appellate Authority against the Tribunal order in respect of issues relating to stock transfer or consignment of goods in so far as it involves a dispute of inter-state nature.
E-services offered by the Department, especially e-return filing and e-payment facility have been welcomed by the dealers and tax practitioners. In view of the positive response received from all the quarters, the e . service of filing e returns is being introduced for the registered employers (PTRC holders) filing monthly returns.
Where the assessee company executed a works contract of design, development, commissioning etc., of an oil free compressor system for its client during the period 1997–2001 it was held that the assessee is not liable under ‘consulting engineering services’ – (i) since services rendered by ‘companies’ were not liable prior to 1.5.2006 under this category; (ii) since the assessee company’s service fall under works contract services which was brought into the ambit of service tax only w.e.f. 1.6.2007.
We aim to be an efficient and effective tax administration respected for fairness, transparency and professionalism.” If a registered dealer/company is not issuing form C, even though the same is mentioned in their purchase order, the invoices are raised accordingly, Sale tax dept collects additional tax, penalty from the Seller & the Buyer is not penalized? No questions are asked to the Buyer for non issuing of Form C, against applicable purchases! Sale tax dept allows Buyer to continue the business, and indirectly helping him to evade the tax?
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.
