Act Number: 74

Act Name: The Central Sales Tax Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-10-21

Long Title: An Act to formulate principles for determining when a sale or purchase of goods takes place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce or outside a State or in the course of import into or export from India, to provide for the levy, collection and distribution of taxes on sales of goods in the course of inter-State trade or commerce and to declare certain goods to be of special importance in inter-State trade or commerce and specify the restrictions and conditions to which State laws imposing taxes on the sale or purchase of such goods of special importance shall be subject.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Revenue

Section 9A: Collection of tax to be only by registered dealers.
    1[9A. Collection of tax to be only by registered dealers.--No person who is not a registered dealer shall collect in respect of any sale by him of goods in the course of Inter-State trade or commerce any amount by way of tax under this Act, and no registered dealer shall make may such collection except in accordance with this Act and the rules made thereunder.]
Notes:
1. Subs. by Act 31 of 1958, s. 6, for the original section 9 (w.e.f. 1-10-1958).
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