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In pursuance of clause (3) of Article 348 of the Constitution of India, the following translation in English of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax (Levy, Amendment and Validation) Act, 2009 (Mah. Act No. XXII of 2009), is hereby published under the authority of the Governor.
By order and in the name of the Governor of Maharashtra, H. B. PATEL, Secretary to Government, Law and Judiciary Department.
MAHARASHTRA ACT No. XXII OF 2009.
( First published, after having received the assent of the Governor, in the “ Maharashtra Government Gazette ", on the 16th December 2009).
An Act further to amend the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002.
WHEREAS both Houses of the State Legislature were not in session ;
AND WHEREAS the Governor of Maharashtra was satisfied that circumstances existed which rendered it necessary for him to take Mah. IX immediate action further to amend the Maharashtra Value Added Tax of 2005. Act, 2002, for the purposes hereinafter appearing: and, therefore, Mah. Ord. promulgated the Maharashtra Value Added Tax (Levy, Amendment and X‘;'m of Validation) Ordinance, 2009, on the 27th August 2009 :
AND WHEREAS it is expedient to replace the said Ordinance by an Act of the State Legislature : it is hereby enacted in the Sixtieth Year of the Republic of India as follows :—
1. (1) This Act may be called the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Short title and (Levy, Amendment and Validation) Act, 2009. commencement.
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(2) It shall bedeemed to have come into force on the 27th August 2009.
2. Section 6 of the Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Act’) shall be re-numbered as sub-section (1) thereof; and after sub-section (I) as so re-numbered, the following sub-section shall be added and shall be deemed to have been added with effect from the 1st April 2005, namely :— ¢ “(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), there shall be levied a sales tax, in addition to the sales tax leviable under sub-section (1), on the sales of any motor spirits specified in Schedule D at such rate per litre, if any, as may be set out from time to time against each of the motor spirits, in column (3) of the said Schedule.”.
3. In section 93 of the principal Act,.—
(a) for sub-section (1), the following sub-sections shall be substituted and deemed always to have been substituted, namely :— “(1) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Package Scheme of Incentives, any Eligible Unit, to whom the Eligibility Certificate and Certificate of Entitlement have been granted at any time before or after the appointed day, on account of increase in the prodiiction capacity or, as the case may be, acquisition of new fixed capital assets, shall be entitled to draw the benefits in any year, only on that part of its turnover of sales or purchases as may be arrived at by applying the provisions of subsection (1A) to the total turnover of sales and purchases of the said unit in that year.
(1A) Iy case where the Eligible Unit has,— (@) maintained separate accounts of sales and purchases and is able to identify the sales and purchases pertaining to the increase in the production capacity or, as the case may be, the said eligible investment, then the portion of the turnover eligible for benefits will be decided solely on the basis of such identification ;
(b) not maintained separate accounts of sales and purchases and is not able to identify the sales and purchases in relation to increase in the production capacity or, as the case may be, the said eligible investment, then such benefits shall be calculated after applying the formulae in sub-clause (i) or, as the case may be, sub-clause (ii) given as under :—
(i) in case where there is increase in production capacity, then for the Package Scheme of Incentives for 1988 or, as the case may be, Package Scheme of Incentives for 1993, the formulae shall be as below :— ‘Turnover x Increase in production capacity Eligible Turnover = Total production capacity after such increase.
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(i) in case where there is no increase in production capacity, then for the Package Scheme of Incentives for 1993, the formulae shall be as below — Turnover x New fixed capital investment Eligible Turnover = Total gross fixed capital investments.
(iBl When the eligible turnover comprises of multiple finished products, then,— . (a) the, production capacity of each of the finished products shall be separately considered in determining the corresponding eligible turnover, and
(b) eligible turnover shall relate to those products on which the eligible investment has made impact and when eligible investment does not add to production capacity, then it shall apply to all the finished products.” ;
(b) after sub-section (3), the following Explanation shall be added, namely :— “Explanation.—For the purpose of this section, the expressions ‘production capacity’. ‘eligible investment’ and ‘gross fixed capital investments’ shall have the same meanings as respectively assigned to them in the relevant Package Scheme of Incentives.”.
4. After section 93 of the principal Act, the following section shall be inserted, namely :— “93A. The provisions of section 93 shall apply to all the Eligible Units, to whom the Eligibility Certificate and Certificate of Entitlement ‘have been issued under any of the Package Scheme of Incentives,— (@) if such Certificates are issued on or before the appointed day, then from the appointed day; and
(b) in any other case, from the date of effect mentioned in such Certificates.”.
5. (1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any judgment, decree or order of any Court or Tribunal to the contrary, any assessment, review, levy or collection of tax in respect of sales or purchases effected by any dealer or person, or any action taken or thing done in relation to such Mah. assessment, review, levy or collection under the provisions of the IXof Maharashtra Value Added Tax Act, 2002 (hereinafter in this section
2005. referred to as “the Value Added Tax Act”), before the date of the Mah. commencement to the Maharashtra Value Added Tax (Levy, Amendment XXIl and Validation) Act, 2009 (hereinafter referred to as “the said Act”), shall 2003‘ be deemed to be valid and effective as if such assessment, review, levy " or collection or action or thing had been duly made, taken or done under the Value Added Tax Act, as amended by the said Act, and accordingly,— Insertion of new section 93A to Mah.
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8 HERTS; Y VG0, SRR, 4 319, R 95, 2009/3WRTR0 4, Wb 9339 (@) all acts, proceedings or things done or taken by the State Government or by any officer of the State Government or by any other authority in connection with the assessment, review, levy or collection of any such tax, shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be, and to have always been done or taken in accordance with the law ;
(b) no suit, appeal, application or other proceedings shall lie or be maintained or continued in any Court or before any Tribunal, officer or other authority, for the refund of any tax so paid; and
(d) no Court, Tribunal, officer or other authority shall enforce any decree or order directing the refund of any such tax.
(2) For the removal of doubts, it is hereby declared that nothing in sub-section (1) shall be construed as preventing a person,— (@) from questioning in accordance with the provisions of the Value Added Tax Act, as amended by the said Act, any assessment, review, - levy or collection of tax referred to in sub-section (1), or
(b) from claiming refund of any tax paid by him in excess of the amount due from him by way of tax under the Value Added Tax Act, as amended by the said Act.
(3) Nothing in the Value Added Tax Act, as amended by the said Act shall render any person liable to be convicted of any offence in respect of anything done or omitted to be done by him, before the commencement of the said Act, if such act or omission was not an offence under the Value Added Tax Act but for the amendments made by the said Act ; nor shall any person in respect of such act or omission be subject to a penalty greater than that which could have been imposed on him under the law in force immediately before the commencement of the said Act.
Repealof 8. (1) The Maharashtra Value Added Tax (Levy, Amendment and Mah.
Ma,'('{,;(,’;m‘,‘( Validation) Ordinance, 2009, is hereby repealed. Ord.
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(2) Notwithstanding such repeal, anything done or any action taken (including any notification or order issued) under the principal Act, as amended by the said Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been done, taken or issued, as the case may be, under the corresponding provisions of the principal Act, as amended by this Act.
ON BEHALF OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING. STATIONERY AND PUBLICATION. PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY SHRI PARSHURAM JAGANNATH GOSAVI. PRINTED AT GOVERNMENT PRESS. CIVIL. LINES, NAGPUR 440 001 AND PUBLISHED AT DIRECTORATE OF GOVERNMENT PRINTING. STATIONERY AND PUBLICATION, 21-A. NETAJI SUBHASH ROAD: CHARNI ROAD, MUMBAL 400 004,