mumbai the bombay high court is scheduled to deliver its verdict on the maharashtra governments decision to charge valueadded tax vat on underconstruction buildings between 2006 and 2010 on tuesday a day before the deadline for developers to pay the levy ends ultimately the burden will be on the middleclass tax payers or buyer of flats said a division bench of justice d y chandrachud and justice rajesh ketkar the bench will start hearing the case at 930am oneandahalf hours before the court opens at 11am the court is hearing a bunch of petitions filed by the maharashtra chamber of housing industryconfederation of real estate developers association of india mchicredai the representative body of builders in the state along with the punebased marathi bandkam an pil has also been filed by grahak hitawardhini a punebased consumer organization the petitioners have questioned if the sale of flats constitutes a work contract they have also claimed that the vat of 5 and 1 for flats purchased from 2006 to 2010 and post2010 respectively was against the law as it included the cost of land which was an immovable property