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consideration;
v- the supply
of goods by an association or body of persons (whether
incorporated or not) to a member thereof for consideration;
vi- the supply, by way of or as part of any
service or in any other manner whatsoever, of goods, being
food or any other article for human consumption or any
drink (whether or not intoxicating) where such supply or service is
for consideration.
>In 1995 Uttar Pradesh Sales Tax Act, 1948 was, w.e.f. 14-051994 , renamed as Uttar Pradesh Trade Tax Act, 1948
>W.e.f 01-01-2008 The Uttar Pradesh Value Added Tax Act,
2008 repealed
the old law and introduced multipoint
destination based taxation system which reduced multiple
rates of tax to 5 and removed cascading effect ensuring tax on
addition in value of goods at every link from origin to terminal
passing through chain of dealers. This is done by giving credit of
tax paid on the purchase of goods (defined as INPUT TAX ) when
such goods are resold; or used in manufacture of goods and such
manufactured goods are sold; or disposed of under the provisions
of S/13 of VAT Act.
What is GST ?
> VAT was a step ahead towards GST which successfully removed
the effect of tax on tax from the transactions made within the
State. GST shall remove this effect at Nation Level and unify the
whole Nation as one market to help India compete in Global
market.
> Service and sale of goods shall be re-demarcated to lessen
litigation.
> Many indirect taxes of Union and States shall be subsumated.
> CSTAct,1956 shall phase out and destination based tax system
shall be adhered.
> Dual GST i.e., Central GST (CGST) & State GST (SGST) shall
apply to the transactions of sales and services both.
> Rates of tax shall be reduced to 2.
> loss to States shall be compensated by the Centre.
Abhai Chandra
Retd. Dy. Commissioner, Com. Tax
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