Larsen & Toubro Limited vs Additional Deputy Commissioner Of Commercial Taxes

 Larsen & Toubro Limited vs Additional Deputy Commissioner Of Commercial Taxes - Supreme Court Important Judgment 2016 - 

 

On 5th September, 2016, in the case of Larsen & Toubro Limited vs Additional Deputy Commissioner Of Commercial Taxes & Anr. [Civil Appeal No. 2956 of 2007], while examining the liability of the assessee to pay turnover tax under Section 6-B of the Karnataka Sales Tax Act, 1957 on the payment made to the sub-contractor inspite of the fact that the sub-contractor had declared the turnover and paid taxes, it was held “that the value of the work entrusted to the sub-contractors or payments made to them shall not be taken into consideration while computing total turnover for the purposes of Section 6-B of the Karnataka Sales Tax Act.”