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CHAPTER XX TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS   * Section 139. Migration of existing taxpayers.- (1) On and from the appointed day, every person registered under any of the existing laws and having a valid Permanent Account Number shall be issued a certificate of registration on provisional basis, subject to such conditions and in such form and manner as may be prescribed , […]

Section 138. Compounding of offences.- (1) Any offence under this Act may, either before or after the institution of prosecution, be compounded by the Commissioner on payment, by the person accused of the offence, to the Central Government or the State Government, as the case be, of such compounding amount in such manner as may be prescribed : Provided that […]

Section 137. Offences by companies.- (1) Where an offence committed by a person under this Act is a company, every person who, at the time the offence was committed was in charge of, and was responsible to, the company for the conduct of business of the company, as well as the company, shall be deemed to be […]

Section 136. Relevancy of statements under certain circumstances.- A statement made and signed by a person on appearance in response to any summons issued under section 70 during the course of any inquiry or proceedings under this Act shall be relevant, for the purpose of proving, in any prosecution for an offence under this Act, the truth of the […]

Section 135. Presumption of culpable mental state.- In any prosecution for an offence under this Act which requires a culpable mental state on the part of the accused, the court shall presume the existence of such mental state but it shall be a defence for the accused to prove the fact that he had no […]

Section 134. Cognizance of offences.- No court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Act or the rules made thereunder except with the previous sanction of the Commissioner, and no court inferior to that of a Magistrate of the First Class, shall try any such offence. *Enforced w.e.f . 1st July, 2017 .

Section 133. Liability of officers and certain other persons.- (1) Where any person engaged in connection with the collection of statistics under section 151 or compilation or computerisation thereof or if any officer of central tax having access to information specified under sub-section (1) of section 150 , or if any person engaged in connection with the provision of service on […]

Section 132. Punishment for certain offences.- (1) 1 [Whoever commits, or causes to commit and retain the benefits arising out of, any of the following offences], namely:- (a) supplies any goods or services or both without issue of any invoice, in violation of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder, with the intention to […]

Section 131. Confiscation or penalty not to interfere with other punishments. – Without prejudice to the provisions contained in the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, (2 of 1974.) no confiscation made or penalty imposed under the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder shall prevent the infliction of any other punishment to which […]

Section 130. Confiscation of goods or conveyances and levy of penalty.- (1) 1 [Where] any person- (i) supplies or receives any goods in contravention of any of the provisions of this Act or the rules made thereunder with intent to evade payment of tax; or (ii) does not account for any goods on which he is liable to pay […]