In a bid to reduce litigations and to recover the arrears after the GST rollout, the Kerala Government has implemented the Amnesty scheme for the assessees under the earlier VAT, Kerala General Sales Tax Act...
A two-judge bench of the Delhi High Court has stayed the notification issued by the State Government cancelling form F issued by a dealer in Delhi. The cancellation was purportedly under rule 8(10) of CST...
The GST department, Maharashtra has introduced an amnesty scheme to ensure that people who come ahead to settle their disputes will get a waiver in the range of 1 percent to 50 percent in their...
The Maharashtra cabinet has last day approved an amnesty scheme to enable the taxpayers to settle the tax disputes before the Goods and Services Tax (GST) came into effect. This is aimed at recovering the...
A two-judge bench of the Chhattisgarh High Court has held that the tendu leaves are not ‘Minor Forest Produce’ and therefore, the concessional rate of 5% is not leviable on the same. The State Government...
Ever since the GST regime was rolled out in India, there has been a sense of relief among the taxpayers. Not only has the implementation of GST helped remove the cascading effect of various taxes,...
Shri Shiv Pratap Shukla, Minister of State for Finance in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha last day said that the total net indirect tax collection (inclusive of CGST, IGST, and GST-Compensation Cess)...
The Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal (CESTAT), Hyderabad bench, while quashing service tax demand on the Hindustan Shipyard, has held that the assessee is not taxable for certain payments received from the Indian...
The Central Information Commission (CIC) has held that the VAT returns of the third parties cannot be made available through applications under the Right to Information (RTI) as there is no public interest involved in...
In a significant ruling, the Karnataka High Court has held that the re-assessment order passed under the Karnataka Value Added Tax (KVAT) Act after the rollout of the Goods and Services Tax Act ( GST...
The State Government of Haryana is all set to set up a State bench of the Goods and Services Tax Appellate Tribunal in Hisar for speedy settlement under the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) regime....
The Cochin bench of Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) restored the decision of CIT(A) and held that interest on delayed payment of VAT and TDS is compensatory in nature and also deleted the disallowance. The...
As the Goods and Services Tax ( GST ) regime turned one year in July this year, the number of traders who have joined the regime in Madhya Pradesh has reached over four lakh, a...
The cash/ trade discounts to the customers are allowable as business expenditure even if the same is not reflected in the invoice, said the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Hyderabad bench. The decision would be a...
The Hyderabad bench of Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal ( CESTAT ) in Surya Telecom Pvt Ltd v. CC, Hyderabad, held that the Tribunal is bound to follow the notifications issued by the Government...
A division bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court in Tripti Alcobrew Pvt. Ltd and Ors v. State of Madhya Pradesh, upheld the imposition of VAT on composite rent under the Value Added Tax Act,...
The Customs Excise and Service Tax Tribunal (CESTAT) in Mateshwari Indrani Contractors Pvt.Ltd v. C.C.E&S.T held that Service Tax cannot be levied on the activity of collection of VAT on behalf commercial tax department. It...
The Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal, New Delhi in the case of Maihar Cement v. CCE & ST Jabalpur allowing the appeal held: if subsidy amount is paid by way of VAT 37B...
The Delhi bench of Customs Excise & Service Tax Appellate Tribunal ( CESTAT ) has held that VAT Subsidy can’t be included in the assessable value. The bench including Justice (Dr) Satish Chandra President and...
In the case of Commissioner of Commercial Tax vs Executive Engineer, Uttarakhand High Court has ruled that Value Added Tax ( VAT ) is leviable on the supply of cement, steel and bricks etc. to...
Delhi CESTAT in the case of M/s Ultratech Cement vs. CCE, Jaipur-I ruled that remitted portion of the sales tax cannot be included in assessable value since VAT is paid actually at the time of...
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