AMIT BAJAJ ADVOCATE

The  15th      April 2011

The  25^th  April  2011

Delhi High Court in an important judgment in a case namely CIT vs. Govind Nagar Sugar Limited (2011) ISI B-469 Del. (H.C.), has held that “The effect of Section 32(2) is that unabsorbed depreciation of a year becomes part of depreciation of subsequent year by legal fiction and when it becomes part of current year depreciation it is liable to be set off against any other income, irrespective of the fact that the earlier years return was filed in time or not.”

VAT 23 AND VAT 24 Return Forms under Punjab VAT Act 2005 have been amended vide notification  dated 14-03-2011. By this notification the condition of   allowing  ITC on purchase of goods upto 4^th stage of purchase from manufacturer or importer has also been done away with. The relevant provisions relating to it i.e Rule 21(7) and clause (m) of sub rule (4) of  Rule 54 which were added last year vide notification dated 17-03-2010, have been deleted.

As we know C forms are required to be submitted by a seller with the sales tax authorities after obtaining the same from the purchaser of goods if the sale is an interstate sales and CST has been charged at concessional rate of 2% as per the requirement of section 8(4) of CST Act 1956. Sometimes a dealer if has made an interstate sales at concessional rate of CST against C form then afterwards, the purchaser doesnot provide the requisite C form to the seller then in such case difficulties are faced by the seller at the time of finalizing of his assessment proceedings.

The question arises whether in such cases any penalty or interest on the additional tax due can be levied on the seller for non submission of requisite C form? An attempt has been made here to find answer to this question as follows:

Section 80CCC of Income Tax Act 1961 deals with the deductions and income in respect of contributions to certain Pension funds by an individual assessee. Herebelow the relevant provisions of section 80CCC are discussed.

Section 15 of PVAT Act 2005 deals with the Net Tax Payable by a taxable person. Sub section 1 of Section 15 provides that the output tax under PVAT Act shall be adjusted from the Input Tax Credit for determining Net Tax Payable by a taxable Person. If any excess ITC is still left then it is to be adjusted from the CST liability under CST Act 1956 at the option of the taxable person as per section 15(2) of PVAT Act.

Copy of Interim Order 

Brief Facts: The assessee sold an office building for Rs. 49.43 lakhs. As the WDV of the said building was also Rs. 49.43 lakhs, no STCG was offered to tax. The AO held that as the stamp duty valuation of the building was Rs. 76.49 lakhs, the consideration had to be taken at that figure u/s 50C. The AO also held that the entire block of assets had not ceased to exist. On appeal, the CIT (A) reversed the AO on the ground that the deeming provisions of s. 50 & s. 50C operate in distinct fields and s. 50C could not apply to depreciable assets. It was also held that the block of assets had ceased to exist.

 

2. Subsequent to issue of circular No. 285, new sections have been inserted under Chapter XVII-B of the Income-tax Act, 1961. References have been received by the Board regarding inclusion of these sections also for the purpose of issue of refund of excess amount of the TDS deducted/deductible.