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Goods and Services Tax : office of the Jt. Commissioner of State Tax. (HQ-1) F-Wing, 7th floor, New bldg, GST Bhavan, Mazgaon, Mumbai-400010. Tel No. 022 2...
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Local Body Tax to be abolished from 1st August 2015. Compensation of Revenue by enhancing VAT tax rate. Women drawing salary upto to Rs. 10000 per month exempted from Profession Tax . Tax rate on ladies Hand Bags and Purses reduced from 12.5 per cent to 5 per cent. Work Book, Graph Book, Drawing Book and Laboratory Book for student’s tax free.
SAILENT FEATURERS OF THE BUDGET SPEECH OF HON. FINANCE MINISTER SHRI SUDHIR MUNGANTIWAR ON WEDNESDAY, 18TH MARCH 2015 Part 1 Main Thrust Areas : Emphasis on dry land farming, accelerated development of infrastructure, removal of disparity, development of urban areas and generation of employment opportunities for youth. Stringent measures to enhance revenue collection and ensuring […]
If the returns are furnished and submitted, then, they deserve to be scrutinised. If they should be scrutinised expeditiously and early and equally the claims for refund in pursuance thereof, then, the only direction that we issue is that the Respondents process such cases and as expeditiously as possible.
The dealers/persons/employers, hereinafter referred to as the applicants, desirous of seeking registrations under the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act (MVAT), Central Sales Tax Act (CST) and the Profession Tax Act (PT) need to make online applications under the relevant Act. These applications are required to be made separately. After successful uploading of the application the applicant is required to visit the registering authority for the purpose of certain verification and submission.
Mumbai High Court on 3rd March, 2015 has ordered to assess and grant MVAT refund on the basis of Returns, what is it? In Maharashtra the Taxpayer has to pay Tax on the difference between Sales and Purchases value. In this if there is less VAT payable on sales and more VAT setoff on Purchases then the refund arises.
In pursuance of the powers conferred by clause (a) of entry 10 of Schedule ‘ D ‘ Appended to the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 (Mah. IX of 2005), the Government of Maharashtra hereby notifies with effect from the 1st March 2015, the area and the period as shown in column (2) and column (3), respectively of the Schedule appended herewith, to be area and period covered for the purpose of clause (a) of the said entry 10, namely.
After introduction of VAT, a large quantum of refund application have been filled. The Department under going transition due to which business process have undergone many changes. As result, a number of circular were issued from time to time to lay down the procedure for the granting of refund. As a further step towards E-Governance, the refund applications are now taken electronically and Mahavikas module for refund is now operational.
The Sales Tax Department has made available the facility to make electronic payments through GRAS (Government Receipt Accounting System) from 18/09/2014. The circular as referred above was issued detailing the procedure to be followed while making payments through GRAS. This office has received queries regarding filing of returns in which taxes are paid through GRAS under the Acts referred as above. In view of the same, it is being clarified as under:
Generally department issues notices of Mismatch for differences between sales and purchases after VAT Audit. Now from April 2014 onwards, filing of Annexure J1 and J2 along with return has been started. Therefore Mismatch Report is available online to the Dealers after filing return.
This article is basically written to give you understanding of evolution of works contract tax in India and its entire journey from beginning till date. Before I take you into the mid of ocean we have to first understand that why the need arises of introduction of works contact tax and its respective calculation methods.
