PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO CENTRAL SALES TAX FOR REASSESSMENT AND REVISION.

Below are the extracts from Union Budget 2010 – 2011 related to Central Sales Tax – as found relevant to Bombay Sales Tax and Maharashtra VAT.

UNION BUDGET 2010 -2011

[Extract of Finance Bill 2010 as introduced in the Parliament on 27 Feb 2010]

CHAPTER VI

CENTRAL SALES TAX : 74 of 1956. 32 of 1994.. Amendment of section 6A.

77. In the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 (hereinafter referred to as the Central Sales Tax Act), in section 6A,— (a) in sub-section (2), for the portion beginning with the words “are true, he may” and ending withthe words “declaration relates shall”, the words “are true and that no inter-State sale has been effected, he may, at the time of, or at any time before, the assessment of the tax payable by the dealer under this Act, make an order to that effect and thereupon the movement of goods to which the declaration relates shall, subject to the provisions of sub-section (3),” shall be substituted; 

 (b) after sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be inserted, namely:—

“(3) Nothing contained in sub-section (2) shall preclude reassessment by the assessing authority on the ground of discovery of new facts or revision by a higher authority on the ground that the findings of the assessing authority are contrary to law, and such reassessment or revision may be done in accordance with the provisions of general sales tax law of the State.”.

 NOTES ON CLAUSES OF AMENDMENTS

[as proposed in the Finance Bill 2010]

Central Sales Tax

Clause 77 of the Bill seeks to amend the Central Sales Tax Act,  with a view to amend sub-section (2) of section 6A of the Central Sales Tax Act, so as to – (i) provide that for making an order under that sub-section, the assessing officer shall, in addition to satisfying himself about the truthfulness of the particulars furnished by a dealer, shall also satisfy himself that no inter-State sales have been effected and also to provide that the deeming provision as contained therein to the effect that “the movement of goods have not occasioned as a result of sale”, shall be subject to the provisions of sub-section (3); and (ii) insert a new sub-section (3) so as to specify that nothing contained in sub-section (2) shall preclude reassessment by the assessing authority on the basis of new facts discovered or revision by a higher authority on the ground that the findings of the assessing authority are contrary to law, and such reassessment or revision may be done in accordance with the provisions of general sales tax law of the State.

 Explanatory memorandum

[to Finance Bill 2010]

 O. AMENDMENTS IN CENTRAL SALES TAX ACT 1956

 The provisions of CST Act are being amended so as to provide for :

[i]      reassessment by the assessing authority on the basis of new facts discovered or revisional by a higher authority.

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