Penalty for false invoice - Section 55(2) AP VAT Act states that...

Penalty for false invoice - Section 55(2) AP VAT Act states that any VAT dealer, who issues a false tax invoice or receives and uses a tax invoice, knowing it to be false, shall be liable to pay a penalty of 200 per cent of tax shown on the false invoice - the contention that so long as the invoices are found to be false, there can be no tax liability and consequently there can be no liability to pay penalty, does not hold good