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Tax admittedly payable
Tax admittedly payable, the expression 'Tax ad-mittedly payable' means the tax which is payable' inter alia according to the return filed by the dealer, C.S.T. v. Qureshi Cruchble Centre, AIR 1994 SC 25 (26). [Uttar Pradesh Sales Tax Act (15 of 1948), s. 8]...
Tax payable
Tax payable, means tax payable under this Act on sales or purchase effected by a dealer or casual dealer but does not include tax due as defined in clause (46). [West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(49)]Means the full amount of tax which becomes due when assessed on the basis of the information regarding turnover and taxable turnover furnished or shown in the return, J.K. Synthetices Ltd. v. Commercial Taxes Officer, AIR 1994 SC 2393. (See also Rajasthan Sales Tax Act, 1954, s. 1113)The tax payable is the amount for which a demand notice is issued under s. 156. In determining the tax payable, the tax already paid has to be deducted. Hence, there can be no doubt that the expression 'the amount of the tax, if any, payable by him' referred to in the first part of s. 271(1)(a)(i), refers to the tax payable under a demand notice. Considering the words 'the tax' found in the latter part of that provision. It may be noted that the expression used is not 'tax' but the 'the tax'. The def...
Maintainable profits
Maintainable profits, The 'maintainable profits' would be a certain percentage (say 80%) of the net profits of the company after deduction of taxes payable by it and this would be a measure of potential yield per share, Commissioner of Wealth Tax v. Mahadeo Jalan, AIR 1973 SC 1023: (1973) 3 SCC 157: (1973) 2 SCR 215....
Sale price
Sale price, 'Sale Price' means the amount payable to a dealer as consideration for the sale of any goods, less any sum allowed as cash discount according to the practice normally prevailing in the trade, but inclusive of any sum charged for anything done by the dealer in respect of the goods at the time of or before the delivery thereof other than the cost of freight or delivery of the cost of installation in case where such cost is separately charged and the expression 'purchase price' shall be construed accordingly, Shree Gopal Industries Ltd. v. State of Rajasthan, AIR 1971 SC 2054: (1971) 2 SCC 532.(ii) Under s. 4 of the Madhya Pradesh General Sales Tax Act, 1958 the liability to pay tax is that of the dealer. The purchaser has no liability to pay tax. There is no provision in the Act from which it can be gathered that the Act imposes any liability on the purchaser to pay the tax imposed on the dealer. If the dealer passes on his tax burden to his purchasers he can only do it by au...
Tax
Tax [fr. tasg, Wel.; taxe, Fr. and Dut.], an impost; a tribute imposed on the subject; an excise; tallage.A monetary charge imposed by government on persons, entities or properly to yield public revenue, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1469.Some general principles of taxation have been said to be:-(1) The subjects of every State ought to contribute to the support of the Government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State. In the observation or neglect of this maxim consists what is called the equality or inequality of taxation.(2) The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quality to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.(3) Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner, in which it is most likely to be co...
Payable
Payable, 'payable' generally means that which should be paid, New Delhi Municipal Committee v. Kalu Ram, AIR 1976 SC 1637 (1639): (1976) 3 SCC 407: (1976) Supp SCR 87.The expression 'the full amount payable by the foreign buyer in respect of the goods' occurring in cl. (b) would mean merely the total amount which is due from the foreign buyer in respect of the goods actually exported; and what would be due from a foreign buyer has to be merely the price which he has been agreed to pay and not any fanciful, unreal or inflated price which the exporter may choose to falsely incorporate in the invoice with any ulterior motives. The foreign buyer cannot, by any stretch of imagination, be held to be liable to pay any amount over and above the price which he has promised to pay for the goods received by him and any difference between that price and the price given in the invoice can therefore not have the attribute of having become 'payable' by him, Director, Enforcement Directorate, Ministry...
Purchase price
Purchase price, means the amount of valuable consideration paid or payable by a person for any purchase made including any sum charged for anything done by the seller in respect of the goods at the time of or before delivery thereof, other than the cost of insurance for transit or of installation, when such cost is separately charged. [The Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, s. 2(20)]Means the amount of valuable consideration paid or payable by a person for any purchase made including the amount of duties levied or leviable under the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985 (5 of 1986) or the Customs Act, 1962 (52 of 1962) and any sum charged for anything done by the seller in respect of the goods at the time of or before delivery thereof, other than the cost of insurance for transit or of installation, when such cost is separately charged and includes--(a) in relation to:(i) the transfer, otherwise than in pursuance of a contract, of property in any goods,(ii) the supply of goods by any uni...
Corporation Tax
Corporation Tax, 'corporation tax' means any tax on income, so far as that tax is payable by companies and is a tax in the case of which the following conditions are fulfilled:(a) that it is not chargeable in respect of agricultural income;(b) that no deduction in respect of the tax, paid by companies is, by any enactments which may apply to tax, authorised to be made from dividends payable by the companies to individuals:(c) that no provision exists for taking the tax so paid into account in computing for the purposes of Indian income tax the total income of individuals receiving such dividends, or in computing the Indian income tax payable by, or refundable to, such individuals. [Constitution of India, Art. 336(6)]...
Tax, interest and penalty
Tax, interest and penalty, tax, interest and penalty are three different concepts. Tax becomes payable by an assessee by virtue of the charging provision in a taxing statute. Penalty ordinarily becomes payable when it is found that an assessee has wilfully violated any of the provisions of the taxing statute. Interest is ordinarily claimed from an assessee who has withheld payment of any tax payable by him and it is always calculated at the prescribed rate on the basis of the actual amount of tax withheld and the extent of delay in paying it. It may not be wrong to say that such interest is compensatory in character and not penal, Associated Cement Company Limited v. Commercial Tax Officer, AIR 1981 SC 1887: (1981) 4 SCC 578: (1982) 1 SCR 563....
The sum payable
The sum payable, the expression 'the sum payable' would obviously mean the difference between the amount refunded and the reduced amount which was liable to be refunded. The second reason is that even if it were to be held that in the case of enhancement the expression 'the sum payable' in sub-s. (4) means the whole of the enhanced amount by a rule of harmonious construction it has got to be held that in view of s. 3(1)(a) of the Validation Act even in the case of a rectification a notice of demand is to be served now only in respect of the amount by which the Government dues are enhanced, Union of India v. Jardine Henderson Ltd., AIR 1979 SC 972 (977): (1979) 2 SCC 258: (1979) 3 SCR 555....
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