Court Grants Sales Tax Exemption to IT Firm, Invalidating State's Additional Conditions in Industrial Incentive Policy.

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

Full Text of the Document

X X   X X   Extracts   X X   X X

....The Punjab and Haryana High Court granted sales tax exemption to the petitioner in accordance with the "Special Package of Incentives to Information Technology Industry, 2000" without imposing any additional conditions. The court held that the State Government cannot deny benefits available under the Industrial Incentive Policy itself. The condition imposed in the Amendment Rules regarding the effective date was struck down. The order withdrawing the exemption was quashed, and the exemption certificate granted to the petitioner was ordered to be reinstated. The petition was allowed.....