The dealers who desire to file Appeal application against the orders passed by the Assessing Authorities under various Acts, apply manually to the Appropriate Authorities. These Appeal Applications are then decided by the Appellate Authorities as per the provisions of the Act....

Guidelines are given to the assessing & appellate authorities, handling cases of dealers, dealing in unmanufactured tobacco, sold in packets under a brand name, in view of the Bombay High Court judgment in the case of M/s Amar Agencies & others....

This Circular gives guidelines on issues such as allowing transitional credits under GST, as per revised return, verification of CST declarations, verification of MVAT credit etc....

As a step forward towards Ease of Doing Business initiative, MGSTD has now introduced facility to make payment of PTRC and PTEC in single screen through its web-site. This facility is optional....

Maharashtra Goods and Services Tax Department is providing various e-services viz. e-registration, e-return filing, e-payment of tax, etc. While availing such e-services, dealer may sometimes face problems with respect to processes and/or procedures for availing e-services....

(i) A registered dealer whose tax liability during the previous year had not exceeded rupees twenty five thousand, shall file Annual Return within twenty one days from the end of the year to which such return relates....

The power to regulate the case of delay due to technical difficulties in obtaining registration under the Profession Tax Act are hereby delegated to the Joint Commissioner of State Tax (Adm) of the respective division and for Mumbai to Joint Commissioner of Profession Tax, Mumbai....

Recently, one such case has been noticed, wherein the tax payer of Maharashtra State has not disclosed the ineligible ITC on account of IGST paid on inward interstate supply and import supplies in its periodic returns filed in form GSTR-3B. It resulted in short transfer of IGST funds to the State of Maharashtra...

For the periods starting on or after Ola April 2005 and ending on or before 31a March 2008, the return as well as the MVAT Audit report filing process was not electronic. ITC in such cases shall be allowed upon verification of record such as tax invoices and books of accounts produced by the claimant dealer....

You may recall that the Trade Circular No-25A of 2008 dated 22nd December, 2008 was issued to clarify the calculation of Cumulative Quantum of Benefits (CQB) on purchases used in manufacture of goods in respect of which set-off U/R 41F of BST Rules is admissible. The said Trade Circular stands withdrawn....