I-T department, other tax agencies can initiate insolvency resolution process - NCLAT
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These tax departments will be considered as operational creditors of the debtor companies and all statutory dues including income tax, value added tax and others will come within the meaning of operational debt, a two-member Bench headed by Justice S J Mukhopadhaya said on Wednesday. The NCLAT’s judgment came on various appeals moved by the income tax and other services tax departments of the various states against decision of various benches of National Company Law Tribunals (NCLT).
In one such case, the sales tax department Maharashtra had challenged the decision of the Resolution Professional of Raj Oil Mills Limited to not call the tax agency to the meeting of the Committee of Creditors (CoC). It had also claimed that the dues owed to the tax department did not come under operational debt, and hence it should not be considered as an operational creditor.
In its judgement of Wednesday, the NCLAT however, held that since operational debt in normal course meant a due arising during the operation of the company, all statutory dues owed to the income tax department, along with others would be operational debt.
“As the income tax’, value added tax and other statutory dues arising out of the existing law arises when the company is operational, we hold such statutory dues has direct nexus with operation of the Company. For the said reason also, we hold that all statutory dues including ‘income tax’, ‘value added tax’ come within the meaning of operational debt,” the NCLAT said. #casansaar (Source - PTI, Business Standard)
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