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Central Sales Tax Act
An Act to formulate principles for determining when a sale or purchase of goods takes place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce or outside a State or in the course of import into or export from India, to provide for the levy, collection and distribution of taxes on sales of goods in the course of inter-State trade or commerce and to declare certain goods to be of special importance in inter-State trade or commerce and specify the restrictions and conditions to which State laws imposing taxes on the sale or purchase of such goods of special importance shall be subject.
| Act Id | 195674 |
| Act Number | 74 |
| Enactment Date | 1956-10-21 |
| Act Year | 1956 |
| Ministry | Ministry of Finance |
| Enforcement Date | 05-01-1957 |
- All sections
- 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- 2 Definitions
- 3 When is a sale or purchase of goods said to take place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce
- 4 When is a sale or purchase of goods said to take place outside a State
- 5 When is a sale or purchase of goods said to take place in the course of import or export
- 6 Liability to tax on inter-State sales
- 6A Burden of proof, etc., in case of transfer of goods claimed otherwise than by way of sale
- 7 Registration of dealers
- 8 Rates of tax on sales in the course of inter-State trade or commerce
- 8A Determination of turnover
- 9 Levy and collection of tax and penalties
- 9A Collection of tax to be only by registered dealers
- 9B Rounding off of tax, etc
- 10 Penalties
- 10A Imposition of penalty in lieu of prosecution
- 11 Cognizance of offences
- 12 Indemnity
- 13 Power to make rules
- 14 [Omitted.]
- 15 [Omitted.]
- 16 Definitions
- 17 Company in liquidation
- 18 Liability of directors of private company in liquidation
- 18A Appeals to highest appellate authority of State
- 19 Central Sales Tax Appellate Authority
- 19A Vacancies, etc., not to invalidate proceedings
- 20 Appeals
- 21 Procedure on receipt of application
- 22 Poweres of the Authority
- 23 Procedure of Authority
- 24 Authority for Advance Ruilings to function as Authority under this Act
- 25 Transfer of pending proceedings
- 26 Applicability of order passed
