The Punjab & Haryana High court has delivered a landmark judgement namely Gheru Lal Bal Chand Vs. State of Haryana and another on 23/09/2011 disposing off 26 writ petitions challenging the constitutional vires of section 8(3) of Haryana Value Ad ..
Definition of works contract service: Service tax under works contract services has been imposed on the service element involved in the works contracts. It should be noted that unlike VAT laws in various States service tax is applicable only on a fe ..
Meaning of Remand:When an appellate court sends an appealed case back to the trial court for further action, the case is said to be remanded. This usually happens if the trial judge has made an error which requires a new trial or hearing. ..
Section 40(b) of Income Tax Act places some restrictions and conditions on the deductions of expenses available to an assessee assessable as a partnership firm in relation to the remuneration and interest payable to the partners of such firm. The de ..
Rule 51A of Punjab VAT Rules has been added in the Punjab VAT Rules 2005 w.e.f 12-09-2008 to provide for the locking of TIN No of a dealer in certain circumstances. Locking the TIN no means the temporary stoppage of interstate moveme ..
Almost all States under their respective VAT laws have made provisions for deduction of VAT from payment to be made to the works contractors at the time of the payment (popularly known as works contract tax or VAT TDS on works contract). The Punjab ..
Central Sales Tax Act 1956 envisages single point of taxation i.e tax at the first point of sales. Subsequent sales during the movement of the goods from one state to another have been exempted under section 6(2) of CST Act. Before proceeding to u ..
To constitute interstate sales, one of the basic requirement is that there should be sale. If a person sends goods outside from its state to its branch office in another state then it is not sale because you cannot sell goods to yourself. Similarly ..
The Excise and Taxation Department, Government of Punjab has amended rule 21 of Punjab VAT rules to add sub rule 2-A in the said rule to provide for that ITC shall be allowed to a taxable person to the extent of tax payable on the resale value of go ..
For registration under the Punjab VAT Act 2005 one of the requirement u/s 25(1) is furnishing of security for securing the payment of tax under PVAT Act 2005. This requirement is compulsory as per the wording of section 25(1) of PVAT Act 2005 which ..