Assessee has two different firms registered. A & B..
He has 4 seperate businesses.
Three businesses are under one firm... A
One business of government contracts is under the second firm... B
Problem -
The second registered firm "B" dealing with government contracts was earlier a partnership but it is now a proprietorship firm...
He wants to merge all 4 businesses under Firm "A" so that he doesn't have to take seperate VAT & Service Tax numbers for the same...
But Firm "B" is an old firm with a lot of goodwill amongst govt clients..
Hence the assessee doesn't want to bid for govt contracts in the name of "Firm A"..
Can he use "Firm B" as a tradename and request for "purchase orders" to be made in the name of "Firm A" and take VAT & Service tax numbers only for "Firm A"???
But he has to quote Firm name WITH VAT & SERVICE TAX NUMBER even while registering and bidding for government contracts... Hence he cannot quote Firm B which does not have VAT & Service tax number anymore..
How to solve this issue??
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