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Applicability of VAT on Payments of Royalty To Foreign Holding Company
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....pplicability of VAT on Payments of Royalty To Foreign Holding Company<br> Query (Issue) Started By: - suresh arigela Dated:- 20-10-2015 Last Reply Date:- 21-10-2015 VAT + CST<br>Got 5 Replies<br>VAT / Sales Tax<br>Dear All, Greetings of the day. we are a company Situated in State of Tamailnadu, We paid Royalty to our Foreign parent company for their technical Know how support and also paid ser....
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....vice tax for Availing of Services. now The Tamilnadu Vat dept.sent one Notice to pay vat on The Royalty amount paid to our parent company. is Vat applicable on payment of Royalty? in the State of Tamilnadu? please Provide Your Views . thanks in advance . Reply By YAGAY AND SUN: The Reply: In the case of S.P.S. Jayam and Co. vs Registrar, Tamil Nadu Taxation Special Tribunal and others (2004)....
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.... 137 STC 117(MAD) = 2004 (4) TMI 539 - MADRAS HIGH COURT, the High Court held that the Royalty received as consideration of use of trade mark is consideration of transfer of right to use a movable asset and upheld its taxation under the sales tax laws. The court observed that " For transferring the right to use the trademark, it is not necessary to hand over the trademark to the transferee or give....
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.... control or possession of trademark to him." The court further observed that "Simply because the assessee retained the right for himself to use the trademark and reserved the right to grant permission to others to use the trademark, it would not take away the character of the transaction as one of transfer of a right to use." Reply By Ganeshan Kalyani: The Reply: Dear Yagay and Sun, from your rep....
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....ly it is inferred that Vat/Cst would be applicable. However when the querist company has availed the technical knowhow and made payment towards it then the revenue is accounted in the books of the parent company and an expensive to the querist company. However since the parent company is in foreign country does the querist company will have pay vat /cst. Pl present your valuable view in this regar....
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....d. Reply By YAGAY AND SUN: The Reply: The provision of purchase tax would be applicable on this transaction. Reply By YAGAY AND SUN: The Reply: Further, whatever amount is paid by you as Purchase Tax/VAT that would be available to you as Input Tax Credit, since such technology is being used in manufacturing of finished goods on which Output VAT is being paid. Reply By suresh arigela: The Reply....
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....: Dear All , Greetings of the day. In our case it is Import of Service and We paid Service Tax According to Reverse Charge Mechanism, Now TN Vat Dept. Wants Us to pay VAT on the Royalty Paid to our parent company which is in another Country. Is We have to pay vat on this Royalty amount? Even though we paid Service tax.? is Royalty Is a good or service.? How we have to Counter this Notice? H....
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....ere We Had paid The Royalty Not Received from MY parent Company. Please Provide Your Views . Thanks in Advance.<br> Discussion Forum - Knowledge Sharing ....