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Service Tax on Builders explained!

Posted by Amit Bajaj 02 May 2021 61603 Views

The revenue and the builders have always been at dispute when comes to leviability of service tax on the consideration received in advance by the builders/developers from the prospective buyers of immovable property to be constructed. After the ne



Capital gains exemption u/s 54EC of Income tax Act, 1961

Posted by Amit Bajaj 11 July 2018 240708 Views

Section 54EC of Income Tax Act, 1961 provides an option to save tax on capital gain arising from the transfer of long-term capital asset subject to fulfillment of certain conditions. Provisions of section 54EC are being discussed herein below for the be



Works contractors are also eligible for advance VAT exemption - P&H High Court

Posted by Amit Bajaj 09 January 2015 15348 Views

The Punjab & Haryana High Court in CWP 19835 of 2014 Ayyappa Infra Projects Pvt Ltd vs State of Punjab has directed the State of Punjab to issue clarification to the effect that works contractors are also eligible for exemption from advance VAT



Amendment in assessment under Punjab VAT Act, 2005

Posted by Amit Bajaj 10 November 2014 13280 Views

Now a days It is seen that the Excise and Taxation Department, Punjab has started issuing notices for amendment in assessment in many cases. These notices are being issued ussualy on the basis of audit objections received from State CAG or sometimes



No penalty can be levied merely on the basis of provisional assessment

Posted by Amit Bajaj 07 October 2014 13998 Views

Rajasthan High Court in a very important case namely ACTO vs Jain Hardware Stores has held that no penalty can be levied in the provisional assessment as for leving penalty definite findings and conclusions and many things have to be proved, therefor



Reasoned orders and principle of fairness in administrative actions-a need of the hour

Posted by Amit Bajaj 29 July 2014 4517 Views

It is the general tendency of the adminstrative authorities more so of the tax authorities to pass non-speaking orders or to pass orders in violation of principle of fairness and rules of natural justice, without giving any opportunity of being heard



Deductor to be deemed as assesee in deafult only in respect of actual tax liability of Non-Resident

Posted by Amit Bajaj 04 July 2014 6953 Views

CBDT in its instruction No. 2/2014 [F No. 500/33/2013-FTD-l], Dated 26-02-2014 issued in view of the judicial develpments in the cases of GE India Technology P Ltd. vs CIT [2010] 7 taxmann.com and Transmission corporation of AP Ltd v. CIT [1999] 105



Disallowance of input tax credit on the ground that seller is bogus or cancelled dealer- Part II

Posted by Amit Bajaj 18 June 2014 13653 Views

Another situation which in many of the cases under the Punjab VAT, which dealers are facing is the disallowance of input tax credit on the ground that the registration of seller of the goods has been cancelled or normally it is stated in the assessme



Disallowance of input tax credit on the ground that seller is bogus or cancelled dealer

Posted by Amit Bajaj 11 June 2014 14648 Views

The system of VAT was introduced in the sales tax law to bring more transparency, efficiency, to remove tax cascading etc. The difficulties which may arise in any system comes to picture only when the system is practically implemented. One of the ma



Constitutional validity of section 39-A of Punjab VAT Act, 2005

Posted by Amit Bajaj 20 May 2014 6847 Views

As per section 39A of Punjab VAT Act, 2005, the Punjab VAT Refund Fund has been constituted and the amount of tax collected as Advance Tax under Section 6(7) shall be credited directly into the said Fund. It has been provided that the Fund shall be m




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