“The said demand order is presently pending appeal before the Commissioner of Commercial taxes, Ranchi,” Tata Steel said in a regulatory filing.
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Tata Steel on Thursday said its subsidiary Tinplate Company of India Limited (TCIL) has received a tax notice, imposing a penalty of about Rs 40 lakhs in connection with a demand order pertaining to the 2016-17 fiscal.
“The said demand order is presently pending appeal before the Commissioner of Commercial taxes, Ranchi,” Tata Steel said in a regulatory filing.
TCIL on October 4, 2023, received an order from the office of the Deputy Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Jamshedpur Circle, Jamshedpur, imposing a penalty of approximately Rs 3,986.78 lakh on TCIL in connection with an earlier demand order from Deputy Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Jamshedpur, pertaining to FY 2016-17, it said.
Domestic steel major Tata Steel owns a majority stake in Kolkata-headquartered TCIL, a tinplate producer.
From its plant in Jamshedpur (Jharkhand), TCIL caters to 40 per cent of the overall domestic market and exports 15-20 per cent of its sales to different geographies across the world.
