2024-VIL-1077-MAD
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Puducherry Value Added Tax Act, 2007 – Works Contract, Transfer of Property, Limitation Period under Section 24(5) of PVAT Act, 2007 for completing the assessment – Classification of activity of 'powder coating' of products like yokes, links and tubes supplied by local industries – whether the activity of 'powder coating' amounts to a 'works contract' under the Puducherry VAT Act, 2007 - Assessing Authority had concluded that the activity of powder coating involved transfer of property in the execution of the works contract, and hence, the Respondent-Assessee was liable to pay tax under Section 15(1) of the PVAT Act - Assessee had filed 'Nil' returns claiming the activity to be a job work and exempt from tax - HELD - the definition of 'works contract' in Section 2(zp) of the PVAT Act is very wide and includes any improvement, modification, or commissioning of any movable or immovable property. Therefore, the activity of 'powder coating' undertaken by the Respondent-Assessee amounts to a 'works contract', and there is a transfer of property in the execution of the works contract. Hence, the Respondent-Assessee is liable to pay tax under Section 15(1) of the PVAT Act – the Revision is allowed - Whether the Assessment Orders passed by the Assessing Officer for the Assessment Years 2007-2008 to 2009-2010 were within the period of limitation prescribed under Section 24(5) of the PVAT Act - HELD - if the notice for completing the assessment is issued within the limitation period of three years as prescribed under Section 24(5) of the PVAT Act, even if the Assessment Order is passed beyond the period of three years, it would be considered as within time. In the present case, since the notices were issued on 05.03.2011, i.e., within three years from the end of the relevant assessment years, the Assessment Orders passed on 12.12.2014, 22.12.2014, and 31.12.2014 are held to be within the period of limitation prescribed under Section 24(5) of the PVAT Act.
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