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2024 (6) TMI 956
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....r bus on certain terms and conditions. Copy of the Agreement is filed as Annexure-1 to the revision. The respondent-Department collected information regarding the payments made to the persons, who had provided their buses to the Uttarakhand Transport Corporation. On the basis of the information received from the said Corporation, a show-cause notice was issued to the revisionist by the Assistant Commissioner, Commercial Tax, Dehradun treating the transaction to be a deemed sale covered by "transfer of right to use". The revisionist gave her reply, however, the Assistant Commissioner, Commercial Tax, Dehradun passed the Assessment Orders dated 6th December, 2010. As per the terms of the Agreement (Annexure No. 1), the payment received by the revisionist for giving her buses for hiring was treated to be a deemed sale and was covered by transfer of right of use and tax was imposed. 4. On Appeals, the Joint Commissioner (Appeal-II), Commercial Tax, Dehradun, vide common order dated 27th August, 2011, allowed the Appeals. 5. Against the common order dated 27th August, 2011 (Annexure-3 to the revision), the Revenue preferred Second Appeal Nos. 186, 185 and 187 of 2011 (Annexure No.....
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....e transfer of right to use the vehicle and the same were taxable under Section 26 of the Value Added Tax Act, 2005 read with Rule 15. 9. For ready reference, Section 26 of the Uttarakhand Value Added Tax Act, 2005 and Rule 15 of the Uttarakhand Value Added Tax Rules, 2005 read as under:- "SECTION 26: Assessment of unregistered person liable to tax- The Assessing Authority, upon information which has come to his possession, is satisfied that any person who is liable to pay tax under this Act in respect of any period has failed to get himself registered, he shall, before expiry of three years following the end of the relevant financial year, proceed to assess the person to the best of his judgment as to the amount of tax due from such person in respect of such period and all subsequent periods and shall direct him further to pay, by way of penalty, a sum equal to the amount of tax found due as a result of such assessment : Provided that no such assessment shall be made without giving the dealer a reasonable opportunity of being heard. Explanation:- For the purposes of this section, a dealer shall be deemed to have failed to apply for registratio....
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.... determined after making such deductions as may be prescribed. For determining the net turnover, Rule 15 (2) prescribes the amount, which can be deducted from the total amount received by a dealer, and it includes (a) the amount representing the sale value of the goods covered by Sections 3, 4 & 5 of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956; (b) the amount representing the value of the goods exempted under any of the provisions of the Act and; (c) the amount received as penalty for default in payment or as damages for any loss or damages caused to the goods by the person to whom such transfer was made, and as per the Explanation, the gross turnover meant the total amount received or receivable by a dealer in an assessment year as valueable consideration for the transfer of the right to use the goods whether such transfer was agreed to during that assessment year or earlier. 11. Keeping in view the above provisions of Rule 15, the Tribunal held that the total amount received by the assessee in lieu of the transfer of right to use the bus, was taxable as this amount was more than Rs. 5 Lacs under Section 3 (7). The case of the revisionist was covered under the category of 'transfer of righ....
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....by the contractor were loaded with goods, the entire responsibility of their safe transit, including avoiding contamination, delivery, and unloading at the destination, was of the contractor. It was impossible to conclude that there was a transfer of the right to use tank trucks in favour of IOCL. The contract was to provide the service of transporting the goods using tank trucks to IOCL. 15. The Supreme Court, therein, referred to Section 65 (105) (zzzzj) of the Finance Act, which came into force with effect from May 16, 2008, which reads as under:- "65. Definitions.- (1)... (105) 'Taxable service' means any service provided or to be provided- (a) ... (zzzzj) to any person, by any other person in relation to supply of tangible goods including machinery, equipment and appliances for use, without transferring right of possession and effective control of such machinery, equipment and appliances." It provides that "taxable service" means any service provided to any person by any other person in relation to the supply of tangible goods, including machinery, equipment and appliances for use without transferring the right of posses....