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2011 (12) TMI 654 - HC - VAT and Sales TaxInput tax credit - whether input tax credit was liable to be reduced proportionately by 25% to the extent of manufacture of tax exempted "Chaff" ("Chokar") in the process of manufacture of "Aata", "Maida" and "Suji", which are taxable wheat products and for manufacture of which the wheat was purchased by the respondent-assessee upon payment of Sales Tax/VAT and full input tax credit in respect of which was claimed u/s 18 of the Act against the tax payable by the assessee on the sale of "Aata", "Maida" and "Suji" during the period in question? - Section 18 of the VAT Act of 2003. Held that: - for the period in question before this Court in the present case, namely, 01.04.2006 to 30.06.2006 is prior to the amendment w.e.f. 02.04.2008 and, therefore, bran of wheat or Chaff/Chokar was exempted goods under Schedule-I of the VAT Act and there is no dispute on this from the side of the assessee - Admittedly, while the wheat bran, the exempted goods, were sold as exempted goods and were obtained in the process of manufacture of taxable goods viz. "Aata", "Maida" and "Suji" as merely byproduct Section 18 of the Act of 2003 does not make any distinction between such byproduct or final product, which are taxable goods for the manufacture of which the raw material, namely, wheat was used. Input tax credit in the present case, was rightly reduced and was allowed only proportionately to the extent of manufacturing and sale of taxable goods by the assessee in the present case, namely, "Aata", "Maida" and "Suji", manufactured out of raw material (wheat) and such input tax credit could not be allowed to the extent of sale of VAT exempted goods, namely, wheat bran (Chaff/Chokar), which has been assessed by the Assessing Authority to the extent of 25% of the input tax credit and reverse tax has been imposed on the respondent-assessee. Revision petition disposed off - decided partly in favor of Revenue.
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