UP-VAT ordinance- 20th December

ACMA-ICAI (DGM-Global Voice Business)   (1052 Points)

21 December 2007  
On the occasion of Eid-Ul- Zuha Govt. of Uttar Pradesh has presented  great gift by being authorized Cost Accountants(CMAs) to Verification & Audit of books of Accounts of Dealers Exceeding gross turnover Rs 1 Crore under Uttar Pradesh VAT vide Ordinance no 37 0f 2007 dated 20th Dec 2007.



Relevant Extract of the ordinance may please be read as Follows:--

17) If in respect of any particular assessment year, gross turnover of

Purchase or sale or both, as the case may be, of any dealer exceeds

Rupees one core, then such dealer shall get his accounts verified and

Audited by a specified authority within six months from end of that

Assessment year and obtain within that period a report of such audit in

The prescribed form duly signed and verified by such specified

Authority along with such particulars as may be prescribed. A true copy

Of such report shall be furnished by such dealer to the assessing

Authority within such period as may be prescribed.



Explanation: For the purpose of this section, expression "specified

Authority" means-

(i) a Chartered Accountant within the meaning of the Chartered

Accountants Act, 1940 and includes persons by virtue of

provisions of sub-section (2) of section 226 of the Companies

Act, 1956, is entitled to be appointed to act as an auditor of

companies;

(ii) a Cost Accountant within the meaning of the Cost and Works

Accountant Act, 1959;

(iii) any other authority specified by the State Government