PRACTICING CHARTERED ACCOUNTANT
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Joined November 2008
See the claculation of VAT for small dealers is not a easy game. If you have gone to a grocer for purchase of goods then you see it is not always possible for them to give you a bill and if they are not able to give bills and invoice for each and every transaction then how they will calculate their tax liability. Further for every small dealer it is not possible to kkep the records required under VAT.
Hence a scheme of composition whereby a ceritan percentages of total sales (ranging between 0.25% to 1%) is deposited by the small dealers under the composition scheme to avoid the complicated procedure of VAT. The composition scheme is optional. The rate of composition scheme differs from state to state since VAT is a state subject .
I will take this in detials in my 3 class.