Goods and Services Tax : What is Audit Report in Form 704? Ans : It is a report under section 61 of MVAT ACT, 2002 to be submitted by eligible dealer withi...
Goods and Services Tax : Under entry 92A of List I of the VII Schedule to the Constitution of India, the Parliament of India has the exclusive right to imp...
Goods and Services Tax : Q.1 Please explain the scheme of “in transit sale” covered by section 6(2) of CST Act, 1956? Ans.: Section 3(a) of CST Act,195...
Corporate Law : Introduction: Amidst WTO & GATS, Special Economic Zones have attained a centre stage. The Central Government has enacted the...
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Corporate Law : Delhi High Court held that prima facie case is made out against the petitioner culpable under section 3 of the Prevention of Money...
Income Tax : Section 115JA of the Income-tax Act, 1961 - Minimum alternate tax - Assessment year 2000-01 - Assessee had created a reserve in as...
Company Law : Supreme Court inter alia on prerequisites for conversion of a private company into a public company - It is not the records of the...
Income Tax : 10.1 It is the common stand of both - the applicant and the Revenue, that the nature of income arising from the transfer of the ap...
Finance : Trade defence measures are available to the domestic industry to counter unfair trade practices followed by exporters of goods fro...
Custom Duty : Amends Notification No. 189/2009- Customs (N.T) dated 31.12.2009 vide which the Customs Tariff (Determination of Origin of Goods u...
Custom Duty : G.S.R. (E).- -In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the...
Income Tax : Notification No. 2/2010-Income Tax at page 20 of the Gazette Notification, in sixth line of clause (B) of sub-rule 2, for “amoun...
Custom Duty : Whereas, the designated authority vide notification No. 15/30/2008-DGAD, dated the 27th February, 2009, published in the Gazette o...
Notification No. 1/2010-Income Tax In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-clause (f) of clause (iii) of sub-section (3) of Section 194A of the Income Tax Act, the Central Government hereby notifies the Rural Electrification Corporation Ltd., New Delhi for the purpose of said clause.
G.S.R. (E).- In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-section (1) of section 25 of the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962), the Central Government, on being satisfied that it is necessary in the public interest so to do, hereby makes the following further amendment in the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No.68/2006-Customs, dated the 30th June, 2006 which was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-Section (i), vide number G.S.R. 394 (E), dated the 30th June 2006, namely:-
For the purposes of this exemption, “Crude palm oil” means fixed vegetable oils, fluid or solid, obtained by pressure, if they have undergone no processing other than decantation, centrifugation or filtration, provided that, in order to separate the oils from solid particles only mechanical force, such as gravity, pressure or centrifugal force, has been employed, excluding any absorption filtering process, fractionalization or any other physical or chemical process. If obtained by extraction oil shall continue to be considered as “crude”, provided it has undergone no change in colour, odour or taste when compared with corresponding oil by pressure.
Notification No. 145/2009-Customs Central Government hereby rescinds the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), no. 129/2008-Customs, dated the 7th December, 2008, which was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i) vide number G.S.R. 843(E) of the same date, except as respects things done or omitted to be done before such rescission.
Whereas in the matter of import of Sodium Nitrite (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under sub- heading 2834 1010 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), originating in, or exported from, People’s Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the subject country or China PR), the designated authority in its preliminary findings vide notification No. 39/1/99-DGAD dated the 6th April, 2000, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 6th April, 2000 had come to the conclusion that
Whereas, in the matter of import of Flax Fabric (hereinafter referred to as the subject goods), falling under sub-heading 5309 of the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975) (hereinafter referred to as the said Customs Tariff Act), originating in, or exported from, People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong(hereinafter referred to as the subject countries) and imported into India, the designated authority in its preliminary findings vide notification No.14/08/2008-DGAD dated the 17th February, 2009, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part I, Section 1, dated the 17th February, 2009, had come to the conclusion that-
Notification No. 141/2009 – Customs In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), read with rules 13, 18 and 20 of the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, the Central Government hereby rescinds the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 74/2009-Customs, dated the 22nd June, 2009, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R.438(E), dated the 22nd June, 2009, except as respect things done or omitted to be done before such rescission.
Under entry 92A of List I of the VII Schedule to the Constitution of India, the Parliament of India has the exclusive right to impose tax on sale or purchase of goods other than newspapers where such sale or purchase takes place in the course of inter-State trade and commerce. Article 269 of the Constitution of India authorises the Parliament to formulate principles for determining when a sale or purchase or consignment of goods takes place in the course of inter-State trade and commerce. Exercising the power so conferred by the Constitution of India, the Parliament has enacted the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 (herein after referred to as “the Central Act”), wherein section 3 specifies the principles as to when a sale or purchase of goods take place in the course of inter-State trade and commerce.
Q.1 Please explain the scheme of “in transit sale” covered by section 6(2) of CST Act, 1956? Ans.: Section 3(a) of CST Act,1956 defines the interstate sale/purchase transaction. Section 3(b) defines the interstate sale effected by transfer of documents of title to goods. When the goods are in movement from one State to other. The whole section 3 reads as under:
Notification No. 128/2009-Customs In exercise of the powers conferred by sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 9A of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), read with rules 13, 18 and 20 of the Customs Tariff (Identification, Assessment and Collection of Anti-dumping Duty on Dumped Articles and for Determination of Injury) Rules, 1995, the Central Government hereby rescinds the notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Finance (Department of Revenue), No. 62/2009-Customs, dated the 15th June, 2009, published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (i), vide number G.S.R. 418(E), dated the 15th June, 2009, except as respect things done or omitted to be done before such rescission.