If the persons are engaged in service industry say handling container freight station. They have to make sales of unclaimed cargo thru auction with the permission of customs, certain scraps etc. and as such they are falling under the category of dealer and have to pay applicable vat on such auction/sale. Can these persons claim input tax credit of vat if any paid on purchase of capital goods. Rgds, Ramesh
23 March 2013
Capital goods are meant to meant to manufacture or process some product.In a cargo handling business there can not be any need for capital goods....mjk
25 March 2013
Thanks Sir. In fact, they have to purchase some kinds of cranes to handle the containers and these are treated as Plant & machinery for them and accordingly it is capitalised. In terms of sales tax, I don't know whether it is capital goods or not.Please advise whether on that basis they can claim input credit of VAT paid on such cranes. Rgds, Ramesh
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