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VAT not applicable on inter-state sale of goods

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..... VAT not applicable on inter-state sale of goods - By: - CA Bimal Jain - Value Added Tax - VAT and CST - Dated:- 28-8-2023 - The Hon ble Patna High Court in PCM CEMENT CONCRETE PVT. LTD. VERSUS THE UNION OF INDIA, THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF COMMERCIAL TAXES, PATNA, THE DEPUTY CHIEF ENGINEER (CONSTRUCTION) , EAST CENTRAL RAILWAY AND OTHER - 2023 (8) TMI 403 - PATNA HIGH COURT held that VA .....

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..... T was wrongly collected by the Indian Railways by misunderstanding the transaction as intra-state sale. The Indian Railways is liable to refund the illegal tax collected and can further claim the refund from the Bihar Value Added Tax Department. Facts: M/s. PCM Cement Concrete Pvt. Ltd. ( the Petitioner ) entered into agreement with the East Central Railway ( the Indian Railways ) to .....

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..... manufacture pre-stressed concrete slabs and transport to the nearest Railway station. The Indian Railways withheld the advance to the extent of value added tax purportedly under the provisions of Section 40 and 41 of the Bihar Value Added Tax Act, 2005 ( the Bihar VAT Act ), on the ground that the transaction is an intra-state transaction. The Petitioner contented that the said amounts we .....

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..... re illegally deducted, since the VAT Act has absolutely no applicability since the manufacture and supply of the goods by the Petitioner to the Railways was an inter-state sale and thus the Bihar VAT Act is not applicable. The Petitioner filed writ before the Hon ble Patna High Court seeking refund of VAT illegally withheld from the State of Bihar. Issue: Whether the recipient is li .....

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..... able to refund the illegal tax collected from the supplier by misinterpreting the intra-state sale as inter-state in VAT regime? Held: The Hon ble Patna High Court in PCM CEMENT CONCRETE PVT. LTD. VERSUS THE UNION OF INDIA, THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER OF COMMERCIAL TAXES, PATNA, THE DEPUTY CHIEF ENGINEER (CONSTRUCTION) , EAST CENTRAL RAILWAY AND OTHER - 2023 (8) TMI 403 - PATNA HIGH CO .....

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..... URT held as under: Observed that, the Petitioner manufacture and supply the pre-stressed concrete bridge slabs and load them in a railway wagon which is then transported to the site in the State of Bihar for installation by the Railways. Noted that, where the movement of goods independently takes place after the contract of sale would not make the transaction an inter-state sale. N .....

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..... oted that, the contention of Indian Railways that the transaction is a works contract is wrong. Thus, the Indian Railways is bound to refund the illegal tax deduction made from the bills to the Petitioner. However, the Indian Railways could definitely apply for refund from the Bihar Value Added Tax Department. (Author can be reached at [email protected] ) - Scholarly article .....

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