Tamil film actor C. Joseph Vijay received a major relief from the Madras High Court on Friday with the court ruling that he would be liable to pay penalty for delayed payment of entry tax only from January 29, 2019 to December 2021 and not from 2005 when he imported a BMW X5 from the United States.
Disposing of a batch of writ petitions filed by him, musician Harris Jayaraj and others, Justice R. Suresh Kumar held that all of them were liable to pay entry tax since a Division Bench of the High Court had on January 29, 2019 made it clear that the State government was entitled to levy such tax.
However, agreeing with advocate A.N.R. Jayaprathap, representing Mr. Vijay, that the Commercial Taxes department ought not to have demanded a huge amount of ₹30.23 lakh towards penalty by levying it since 2005, the judge held that it could be levied only from January 29, 2019.
