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aggravate

aggravate -vat·ed -vat·ing : to make more serious, more severe, or worse [maliciousness aggravated the offense] [aggravated her preexisting condition] [aggravating factors] compare mitigate ag·gra·va·tion [a-grə-vā-shən] n ...


recidivate

recidivate -vat·ed -vat·ing [Medieval Latin recidivatus, past participle of recidivare to fall back, relapse, from Latin recidivus falling back, recurring] : to return to criminal activity ...


The State

The State, means the State of Gujarat. [Gujarat Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(26)]The State, means the State of Maharashtra. [Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002, s. 2(28)]...


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...


Vegetables

Vegetables, as understood in common parlance are not products of manufacture unless, agriculture is an industry for certain purposes and vegetables are products of the Industry, Saraswati Sugar Mills v. Haryana State Board, AIR 1992 SC 228.The word 'vegetables' in taxing statutes is to be understood as in common parlance, Vegetables in item 6 does not include betel leaves, Ramavatar Budhaiprasad v. Asst. Sales Tax Officer, AIR 1961 SC 1325 (1327): (1962) 1 SCR 279. [C.F. and Bezar Sales Tax Act, (21 of 1947), Sch. II, Item 6]The word 'vegetables' should be understood as denoting the class of vegetables which are grown in kitchen garden or in a farm and are used for the tables. There can be no dispute that both chillies and lemons are grown in kitchen gardens or at any rate in farms and they are used for the tables, Mangulu Sahu Ramahari Sahu v. Sales Tax Officer, AIR 1974 SC 390: (1972) 4 SCC 423. [Orissa Sales Tax Act, 1947, s. 6]The word 'vegetables' is not defined in the Act and it ...


Service

Service [fr. servitium, Lat.], that duty which a tenant, by reason of his estate, owes to his lord. There are many divisions of this duty in our ancient law books, as into personal and real, which is either urbane or rustic, free and base, continua land annual, casual and accidental, intrinsic and extrinsic, certain and uncertain, etc. see TENURE.The formal delivery of a writ, summons of other legal process 2. The formal delivery of some other legal notice such as pleading, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1372.The formal mode of bringing a writ or other process, or a notice in a suit, to the knowledge of the person affected by it.The service of writs of summons is regulated by (English) R.S.C. 1883, Ord. IX., which by r. 1 dispenses wit service, when (as is usual) the defendant, by his solicitor, agrees to accept service, and enters an appearance. By r. 2, service, when required, must be personal, unless an order for 'substituted service, or the substitution of notice for service,...


Legal representative

Legal representative, a 'legal representative' ordinarily means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person or a person on whom the estate devolves on the death of an individual, Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation v. Ramanbhai Prabhat Bhai, AIR 1987 SC 1690 (1699): (1987) 3 SCC 234: (1987) 3 SCR 404. [Motor Vehicles Act, (4 of 1939), s. 92A]The definition of 'legal representatives' includes heirs as well as persons who represent the estate even without title either as executors or administrators in possession of the estate of the deceased, Custodian of Branches of BANCO National Ultramarino v. Nalini Bai Naique, AIR 1989 SC 1589 (1591): (1989) Supp 2 SCC 275: (1989) 2 SCR 810.It has the meaning assigned to it in clause (11) of section 2 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. [Wealth-tax Act, 1957, s. 2 (lb)]It means a person who in law represents the estate of a deceased person, and includes any person who intermeddles with the estate of the deceased person, and...


Input tax credit, or input tax rebate

Input tax credit, or input tax rebate, in relation to any period, means the setting off of the amount of input tax, or part thereof, by a registered dealer against the amount of his output tax. [The West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(19)]...


Tax due

Tax due, means the amount of tax which remains unpaid after the expiry of the date specified in the notice of demand issued in this behalf under this Act or the rules made thereunder. [West Bengal Value Added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(46)]Tax due, refers to an ascertained liability. However the meaning of the Words 'taxes due' will ultimately depend upon the context in which these words are used, Harshad Shantilal Mehta v. Custodian, AIR 1998 SC 2291. [See also Special Court (Trial of Offences Relating to Transactions in Securities) Act, 1992, s. 11(2)(a)]Tax due, usually refers to an ascertained liability, Harshad Shantilal Mehta v. Custodian, (1998) 5 SCC 1....


Net Tax

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 the Act and the rules made thereunder, (b) in case of any dealer other than a registered dealer, the amount of output tax. [West Bengal Value added Tax Act, 2003, s. 2(23)]...



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