The Hindu : Entry tax revised

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Friday, Jun 13, 2003

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Entry tax revised

By Our Special Correspondent

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM June 12. The Government has notified new rates of entry tax on goods brought to the State.

The revised rates (in brackets) of various goods are given below:

Motor vehicles covered by serial number 94 of the first Schedule of the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963 (12 per cent), other motor vehicles (four per cent), cement (15 per cent) refrigerator and its parts or accessories, washing machine, air-conditioner and its parts or accessories (16 per cent), marble slabs and marble tiles, cudappa stones and slabs, mosaic tiles and chips, glazed tiles, ceramic tiles and all types of wall or floor tiles, granite slabs (12 per cent) and iron and steel (four per cent). Sodium silicate and caustic soda (12 per cent), computer and its components (four per cent), photocopier, fax machines, scanning machines, invertors, including UPS, and electrical goods (eight per cent), generator, fans, grinders, cooking ranges, water heater, electric wiring cables and ACSR conductors (12 per cent), chassis of motor vehicles and body built on chassis or motor vehicle (12 per cent) and furniture, timber and water supply and sanitary equipments and fittings (12 per cent).

Paints (15 per cent), granite metals, chips and powder and ready-mix concrete (eight per cent), live chicken and meat (eight per cent), computer paper, medical equipment, readymade garments, hosiery goods, weighing machine, weighing bridge and their accessories and automatic teller machine (eight per cent) and battery other than dry cells and button cells (15 per cent).

High-speed diesel oil (24 per cent) kerosene (12 per cent) motor spirit, including light diesel oil but excluding petrol, aviation turbine fuel and high speed diesel oil (41 per cent), naphtha (22 per cent) petrol other than naphtha (28 per cent) other petroleum products not elsewhere mentioned in this list or in the First or Second or Fifth Schedule of the Kerala Sales Tax Act, 1963 (30 per cent), aviation turbine fuel including aviation gasoline (34 per cent) and liquefied natural gas (28 per cent).

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