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With effect from financial year 2010-11, the threshold of gross turnover for getting the accounts audited has been enhanced from Rs. 40 lakhs to Rs. 60 lakhs. Further, dealers covered under the Package Scheme of Incentives are required to get their accounts audited irrespective of turnover limit.
Shri Deora calls upon state Governments to bring down High rates of VAT on Petrol Diesel ; replace Ad-valorem Levies by Specific one. High VAT rates by some states ON PDS Kerosene needs review in view of lighting and cooking usage by the common man.
A new entry in Schedule C has been inserted to cover the declared goods, as specified under the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 which will continue to attract tax at 4%. Notification No. 4/5/2005-Fin(R&C)(78) dated 4 May, 2010 read with Notification No. 4/5/2005-Fin (R&C) (77) dated 4 May, 2010
The Himachal Pradesh Government has, vide a notification, moved most goods falling under „Part II? of the erstwhile Schedule A and liable to tax at 4% to a newly introduced ‘Part II-A’ of the said Schedule A. Effective from 29 March, 2010, these goods shall be liable to tax at 5%.
The Meghalaya budget 2010-11, presented in the Assembly today, proposed to hike the VAT rate on all items, barring wheat and rice, from four per cent to five per cent. Presenting the budget, Finance Minister Mukul Sangma proposed to raise the royalty rate on coal to realise Rs 42 crore. The tax on luxuries will be amended to rationalise the room tariffs, he added.
The Maharashtra budget on Thursday proposed to extend VAT exemptions on food articles like rice, wheat and pulses among others for one more year to help control price rise.Finance Minister Sunil Tatkare while presenting the budget for 2010-11 in the Assembly said that despite recommendation from the empowered committee to levy value added tax (VAT) of 4 percent on these goods, the government has decided not to do so in order to keep the prices of these essential items under control.
In a significant development, Speaker of Maharashtra Assembly Mr Dilip Walse-Patil allowed the government to table an ordinance seeking to amend the Value Added Tax Bill. On March 18, when the bill was first presented, the Opposition protested the move saying that the government did not have a right as the proviso, which empowered the government to change the law by the way of an ordinance was between 2005-07 only, hence promulgation of an ordinance was illegal.
The Union Cabinet today approved a Mission Mode Project for computerization of Commercial Taxes administrations of State Governments. This project, with an overall cost of Rs.1133 crore will help States develop and upgrade the IT systems in their commercial taxes administrations.
So far, VAT at the state or Cenvat at the central level, along with services tax, have been major steps in tax reforms. Before the present tax regime, there was the sales tax regime, where there was a cascading effect on tax. VAT has removed this burden, but it had deficiencies. The Cenvat load remains. There were several state taxes which were not subsumed in any one tax. The inter-state sales tax or CST was not fully relieved.
The Rajasthan government has announced VAT exemption on imported sugar in the state till June 30, in a bid to control the spiraling sweetener prices.“The decision to exempt four per cent VAT was taken by Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot following which sugar price will decrease by Rs 1.6 to 1.8,” an official said.
