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2017 (3) TMI 535 - HC - VAT and Sales TaxWorks Contract - the supply of machine crushed track ballast would come within the fold of works contract or not? - deduction of 85% towards labour and service charges - Whether the ballast or boulder or chips is exigible to tax at the rate of 4% or 12% of the taxable list? - Held that: - although the ballasts supplied at Serial No.1 are also required to be loaded to the Railway wagons. It is needless to opine that the loading of ballasts supplied is a labour charge and the same cannot be termed as a sale after going through the contents of the deed of contract. On the other hand, the supply and delivery of stacks including all other nature of works as agreed to between the parties as per Serial No.1 is a sale. The order of the Tribunal is correct for deducting the loading charges while computing the sales tax. Whether the sale of ballasts or boulders or chips including all incidental charges as per Serial No.1 of the tender schedule stated above “mineral” or not? - Held that: - the word “mineral” is a word of common parlance used in various way but cannot be used in narrow sense. Similarly, it appears from the aforesaid decision that entries in the schedules of sales tax and excise statutes draws colour from the other words therein because of the principle of noscitur a sociis. Thus depending on the aforesaid doctrine in the present context, we have to see whether the ballast is a mineral even if it is not to be defined as mineral under the Act, 1957 or Rules made thereunder. Since the facts are clear in this case to show that the ballast has been prepared from the spalls which are extracted from the quarry taken by the opposite parties on payment of royalty and it has not been defined separately in the tax list, it is to be understood with common parlance - taking the “common parlance test” without going to the reasons by the Tribunal, the result is same to the effect that the ballasts, boulders or chips are nothing but “mineral” under Sales Tax Act exigible to tax at the rate of 4% as per Entry 117 of the taxable list. Whether such fresh plea can be raised in the second appeal without the same being raised in the forums below? - applicable rate of tax - Held that: - there it is question of law as interpreted by parties - It is trite in law that the question of law can be raised at any stage. Moreover, the contention of the State that such plea of exigibility to tax at the rate of 4% of the taxable list before the Tribunal is barred by limitation is not acceptable as the said being question of law can be raised at any stage. Revision dismissed - decided against revisionist.
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