Fees Collected by Agricultural Market Committee for its Services is not Tax: Andhra Pradesh HC dismisses Petition [Read Order]

The court noted that as per plain reading of the provision, the market fee is leviable on purchase or sale of rice by a trader to a trader because there is service rendered by a market committee at each of the stages. Traders were using the premises within the notified area of the agricultural market committee
Agricultural market committee fees - Agricultural Tax - Service Tax - TAXSCAN

The Andhra Pradesh High Court in a recent case observed that fees collected by the agricultural market committee for its services are not tax and dismissed the writ petition alleging double taxation on sale of  ‘Basmati rice’. One of the petitioners who is a trader of Basmati rice, claimed that it sources the rice from…

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