Sales tax applicability on export

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..... Sales tax applicability on export
Query (Issue) Started By: - Bimbita Dated:- 31-8-2007 Last Reply Date:- 7-5-2013 Customs - Exim - SEZ
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We would be selling our products to a company that is based in the USA and receiving the payment in foreign exchange. However, our buyer has instructed us to dispatch the materials to a warehouse in SEZ. The export invoice /packi .....

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..... ng list etc. have the name of the buyer as our customer in the USA but the consignee is the warehouse in SEZ a/c buyer name. ARE1 and Bill of Export is also being filed. Our buyer states that no sales tax is payable as this is export transaction. Buyer can not issue Form I as he is not an Indian company & the warehouse in SEZ cannot issue Form I as they are only providing warehousing service and n .....

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..... ot consuming the materials. Please advice whether we have to charge sales tax or not ? Reply By Surender Gupta: The Reply: It may not be possible to discuss all the provision here since this query is complicated one, but I believe that the transaction qualifies the conditions of section 5 of the CST Act, and there is no local tax is applicable. Reply By Alok Chawla: The Reply: Hi, We are an e-c .....

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..... ommerce company, receiving orders online and shipping goods by courier out of India. We do not claim any duty drawback or any other export benefits. We have been given a sales tax demand for our sales, as the sales tax asst. commissioner refuses to accept courier airwaybill as proof of goods leaving the country. He wants us to pay sales tax on our entire exports since 2006 along with penalties. .....

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..... Can anyone guide on how we can get out of this mess? If the order is passed, it would affect every e-commerce company who sends goods overseas by courier. Thanks.
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