Vat & service tax

Prasenjit Dutta (Querist) 03 October 2012 This query is : Resolved
Dear Experts,

I am sure that the restaurants and fast food outlets are fleecing the public in the name of VAT & ST which they are charging at varying rates throughout Kolkata. Not even 1% of the public ever question or even look at the tax percentages they are booking on the bill print out.

Also you must have noticed that they print the bills on very poor quality thermal paper and with a near empty ink cartridge. That itself indicates that they are trying to hide something. By the time you start thinking of initiating legal action against incorrect taxation you have no proof of purchase left with you. The print has vanished by then--sometimes within 1 day.

Can some learned expert please make a layman like me aware about what exactly is the admissible rate of VAT & ST in West Bengal that is applicable to restaurants, hotels and fast food outlets?

I am seriously considering taking up a PIL against some of the outlets that I have my eyes on.

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