Entry Tax in Tamil Nadu
When goods are transported from any Indian state to Tamil Nadu, the government of Tamil Nadu imposes entry tax on the movement of such goods. The rate for different types of goods is different based on state levies.
Note: Entry Tax has been replaced by the Goods and Services Tax(GST) starting 1 July 2017
Overview of Entry Tax
Entry tax can be referred to as a tax imposed on moving goods from one state to another by Indian State Governments. The recipient state imposes the tax as a means to protect its tax base. The Entry Tax Act was introduced on the 1st of September, 2000, and it requires all dealers who conduct businesses or bring goods into local regions for the purpose of selling them as casual dealers, non-residential dealers or occasional dealers, must pay Entry Tax. Entry Tax is also applicable to trading, commercial or industrial undertaking State as well as Central Government Company, firm, club, HUF or society that conducts business.
VAT Rates Applicable to Various Products
Following is a Table with the VAT Rates Applicable to Various Products in the State of Tamil Nadu:
Description of Goods | VAT Rate |
Refrigerators | 20 |
Light speed diesel oil | 18 |
High speed diesel oil | 22 |
Air conditioners | 20 |
Furnace oil | 16 |
Aluminium | 10 |
Low sulphur heavy stock | 16 |
Asbestos cement sheets | 12 |
Bitumen | 12 |
Wheat flour, atta, rava, maida and sooji | 4 |
Ceramic sanitary wares and all kinds of sanitary fittings | 12 |
Accessories and parts including domestic refrigerators and split-end air conditioners and window compressors | 20 |
PP / HDPE woven fabrics | 4 |
PVC resins and HDPE granules | 4 |
Steel semis such as slabs, billets, ingots and blooms of all sizes, shapes and qualities, and steel rods | 4 |
Lube base oil, grease and lubricating oil | 16 |
Ceramic tiles, wall tiles, roofing and glazed floor, granite slabs and blocks, and marbles and marble tiles | 12 |
Petrol both with additives or without | 30 |
Paper and paper boards not including tissue paper, coated paper, glassine paper, electrical grade paper, MICR, coated boards, straw boards, file boards, surface sized map litho paper, Kraft paper, poster paper and cello phone paper | 10 |
Chlorine, linear alkyl benzene, caustic soda, potassium chloride and soda ash | 12 |
PVC fittings, pipes and tubes | 10 |
Tobacco including tobacco products such as cigarettes, cigars, cheroots, cigarillos, tobacco mixtures for pipes, hookah tobacco, cut-tobacco, chewing tobacco and snuff of tobacco excluding beedies | 10 |
Woven sacks and HDPE | 4 |
Washing machines | 12.5 |
All forms of low density polypropylene and polyethylene including wastes, granules and tapes | 4 |
Anhydrous ethyl alcohol | 8 |
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