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Finance Act, 2003 Complete Act

State: Central

Year: 2003

FINANCE ACT, 2003 FINANCE ACT, 2003 May 14, 2003 An Act to give effect to the financial proposals of the Central Government for the financial year 2003-2004 BE it enacted by Parliament in the Fifty-fourth Year of the Republic of India as follows :- SECTION 01: SHORT TITLE AND COMMENCEMENT (1) This Act may be called the Finance Act, 2003. (2) Save as otherwise provided in this Act, sections 2 to 103 [except clause (b) of section 92] shall be deemed to have come into force on the 1st day of April, 2003. SECTION 02: INCOME TAX (1) Subject to the provisions of sub-sections (2) and (3), for the assessment year commencing on the 1st day of April, 2003, income tax shall be charged at the rates specified in Part I of the First Schedule and such tax as reduced by the rebate of income tax calculated underChapter VII-Aof theIncome-lax Act, 1961-(43 of 1961) (hereinafter referred to as the Income tax Act) shall be increased by a surcharge for purposes of the Union calculated in each case in the manner provided therein. (2) In the cases to which Paragraph A of Part I of the First Schedule applies, where the assessee has, in the previous year, any net agricultural income.....

Finance Act, 2003 Chapter V

Title: Service Tax

State: Central

Year: 2003

.....by any motor vehicle manufacturer, to carry out any service or repair of any motor car, light motor vehicle or two wheeled motor vehicle manufactured by such manufacturer; (10) "banking" has the meaning assigned to it in clause (b) of section 5 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949(10 of 1949); (11) "banking company" has the meaning assigned to it in clause (a) of section 45A of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934(2 of 1934); (12) "banking and other financial service" means-- (a) the following services provided by a banking company or a financial institution including a non-banking financial company or any other body corporate, namely:- (i) financial leasing services including equipment leasing and hire-purchase by a body corporate; (ii) credit card services; (iii) merchant banking services; (iv) securities and foreign exchange (forex) broking; (v) asset management including portfolio management, all forms of fund management, pension fund management, custodial, depository and trust services, but does not include cash management; (vi) advisory and other auxiliary financial services including investment and portfolio research and advice, advice on mergers.....

Finance Act, 2003 Section 159

Title: Amendment of Act 32 of 1994

State: Central

Year: 2003

.....by any motor vehicle manufacturer, to carry out any service or repair of any motor car, light motor vehicle or two wheeled motor vehicle manufactured by such manufacturer; (10) "banking" has the meaning assigned to it in clause (b) of section 5 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949(10 of 1949); (11) "banking company" has the meaning assigned to it in clause (a) of section 45A of the Reserve Bank of India Act, 1934(2 of 1934); (12) "banking and other financial service" means-- (a) the following services provided by a banking company or a financial institution including a non-banking financial company or any other body corporate, namely:- (i) financial leasing services including equipment leasing and hire-purchase by a body corporate; (ii) credit card services; (iii) merchant banking services; (iv) securities and foreign exchange (forex) broking; (v) asset management including portfolio management, all forms of fund management, pension fund management, custodial, depository and trust services, but does not include cash management; (vi) advisory and other auxiliary financial services including investment and portfolio research and advice, advice on mergers.....

Customs Tariff (Amendment) Act, 2003 Chapter XLIX

Title: Printed Books, Newspapers, Pictures and Other Products of the Printing Industry; Manuscripts, Typescripts and Plans

State: Central

Year: 2003

.....of tariff item 4907 00 30, "Information Technology software" means any representation of instructions, data, sound or image, including source code and object code, recorded in a machine readable form, and capable of being manipulated or providing interactivity to a user, by means of an automatic data processing machine. Tariff Item Description of goods Units Rate of duty Standard Preferential Areas (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 4901 PRINTED BOOKS, BROCHURES, LEAFLETS AND SIMILAR PRINTED MATTER, WHETHER OR NOT IN SINGLE SHEETS 4901 10 In single sheets, whether or not folded: 4901 10 10 -- Printed books kg. 25% - 4901 10 20 -- Pamphlets, booklets, brochures, leaflets and similar printed matter kg. 25% - - Other; 4901 91 00 -- Dictionaries and encyclopaedias, and serial instalments thereof kg. 25% - 4901 99 00 -- Other kg. 25% - 4902 NEWSPAPERS, JOURNALS AND PERIODICALS, WHETHER OR NOT ILLUSTRATED OR CONTAINING ADVERTISING MATERIAL .....

The Rajasthan Value Added Tax Act, 2003 Complete Act

State: Rajasthan

Year: 2003

.....or horticultural produce, grown by himself or grown on any land in which he has an interest as owner or tenant as defined in the Rajasthan Tenancy Act, 1955 (Act No. 3 of 1955), shall not be deemed to be a dealer in respect of such sales within the meaning of this clause; (12)"Deputy Commissioner (Administration)", "Assistant Commissioner", "Commercial Taxes Officer", "Assistant Commercial Taxes Officer" or "Junior Commercial Taxes Officer" means the person holding office with that designation under the State Government; (13) "exempted goods" means any goods exempted from tax in accordance with the provisions of this Act; (14)"firm", "partner" and "partnership" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Indian Partnership Act, 1932 (Central Act No. 9 of 1932); (15) "goods" means all kinds of movable property, whether tangible or intangible, other than newspapers, money, actionable claims, stocks, shares and securities, and includes materials, articles and commodities used in any form in the execution of works contract, livestock and all other things attached to or forming part of the land which is agreed to be severed before sale or under the contract.....

West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003 Complete Act

State: West Bengal

Year: 2003

.....in this behalf under this Act or the rules made thereunder; (21) "jute-mill" means a factory as defined in, or declared to be a factory under, the Factories Act, 1948, which is engaged wholly or in part in the manufacture of jute products; (22) "manufacture", with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions, means producing, making, extracting or processing any goods and includes printing and raising of natural resources like minerals, coal etc.; (23) "net tax", in relation to any period, means (a) in case of a registered dealer, the amount of output tax in excess of the input tax credit claimed by such registered dealer in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the rules made thereunder, (b) in case of any dealer other than a registered dealer, the amount of output tax; (24) "notification" means a notification published in the Official Gazette; (25) "occupier of a jute-mill" means the person who has ultimate control over the affairs of the jute-mill; (26) "output tax", in relation to any period, means the aggregate amount of tax payable by a dealer liable to pay tax under section 10, section 11, section 12, section 13, sub-section (3) of section 14, or.....

The Assam Value Added Tax Act, 2003 Complete Act

State: Assam

Year: 2003

.....for carrying out the purposes of the Act; (11) "company" and "director" shall have the meanings respectively assigned to them in the Companies Act. 1956; (Central Act 1 of 1958) (12) "contractee" means any person for whom or for whose benefit a works contract is executed; (13) "contractor" means any person who executes a works contract and includes a sub-contractor; (14) "to cultivate personally" with all its grammatical variations and cognate expressions means to carry on any agricultural operation on one's own account,- (i) by one's own labour, or (ii) by the labour of one's family, or (iii) by servants on wages payable in cash or kind (but not in crop share), or by hired labour under one's personal supervision or the personal supervision of any member of one's family. Explanation I.- A widow or a minor, or a person who is subject to any physical or mental disability or is a serving member of the armed forces of the Union, shall be deemed to cultivate land personally if it is cultivated by her or his servants or by hired labour. Explanation II.- In the case of a Hindu Undivided Family, land shall be deemed to be cultivated personally, if it is cultivated by.....

Customs Tariff (Amendment) Act, 2003 Chapter LXXXIII

Title: Miscellaneous Articles of Base Metal

State: Central

Year: 2003

.....83 MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES OF BASE METAL NOTES 1. For the purposes of this Chapter, parts of base metal are to be classified with their parent articles. However, articles of iron or steel of heading 7312, 7315, 7317, 7318 or 7320, or similar articles of other base metal (Chapters 74 to 76 and 78 to 81) are not to be taken as parts of articles of this Chapter. 2. For the purposes of heading 8302, the word "castors" means those having a diameter (including, where appropriate, tyres) not exceeding 75 mm, or those having a diameter (including, where appropriate, tyres) exceeding 75 mm provided that the width of the wheel or tyre fitted thereto is less than 30 mm. Tariff Item Description of goods Unit Rate or duty Standard Preferential Areas (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) 8301 PADLOCKS AND LOCKS (KEY, COMBINATION OR ELECTRICALLY OPERATED), OF BASE METAL; CLASPS AND FRAMES WITH CLASPS, INCORPORATING LOCKS, OF BASE METAL; KEYS FOR ANY OF THE FOREGOING ARTICLES, OF BASE METAL 83011000 - Padlocks kg. 30% - 83012000 - Locks of a kind used for motor vehicles kg. .....

Karnataka Value Added Tax Act, 2003 Schedule 3

Title: Third Schedule

State: Karnataka

Year: 2003

.....of lime, dolomite and other white washing materials. 60. Medical and pharmaceutical preparations; Medicated ointments manufactured or imported under license granted under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act 1940; Light liquid paraffin of IP grade; Wadding gauze, bandages and similar articles for medical, surgical, dental or veterinary purposes; 8[Surgical gloves and Syringes including needles] Diagnostic or laboratory reagents including prepared diagnostic or laboratory reagents 61. Medical equipments, devices and implants 62. Medicinal plants, roots, herbs and barks used in the preparation of Ayurvedic medicines. 63. Mixed PVC stabilizer; 9[plastic boxes, cases and crates for conveyance or packing of goods] 64. 8[Moulded plastic footwear fully made of plastic and of single mould, hawai chappals (rubber) and their straps.] 65. Napa Slabs (Rough flooring stones) and Shahabad stones 66. Non-ferrous castings 67. Non-ferrous metals and alloys; Ingots, slabs, blocks, billets, sheets, circles, hoops,.....

The Chhattisgarh Value Added Sales Tax Act, 2003 Complete Act

State: Chattisgarh

Year: 2003

.....into a new and different article so understood in commercial parlance having a distinct name, character use, but does not include such activity of manufacture as may be notified;. (o) "Place of business" means any place where a dealer purchases or sells any goods or stores goods or keeps documents or accounts of his purchases or sales or both and also includes- (i) the place of business of an agent where a dealer carries on business through an agent; (ii) any place or building whether any business is carried on therein or not, in which the person carrying on the business, keeps any of his books of accounts, documents, stocks or other things, relating to his business; (o) " Prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Act; (q) "Purchase price" shall comprise of - (i) the amount payable by a dealer as valuable consideration for the purchase of goods˜ simplicit or; Provided that where goods are purchased together with the packing material or container, then notwithstanding anything contained in this Act, the purchase price of such goods shall be inclusive of the price or cost or value of such packing material or container, whether such.....