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2017 (12) TMI 1285 - SC - VAT and Sales TaxPayment of tax under the Kerala Tax on Paper Lotteries Act, 2005 - whether the respondent-assessee is a promoter within the meaning of Section 2(l) of the Act so as to make it exigible to payment of tax under Section 6 and amenable to the other provisions of the Act? - Held that: - The respondent who was appointed as an agent by M/s. MSIL was expressly barred by the terms of appointment from dealing with lottery tickets in the electronic form and for sale in the physical form outside the territories of the State of Karntaka. If that is so, we do not see how the respondent can be understood to be capable of being included in the definition of 'promoter'. The respondent certainly is not 'any person' appointed by the State of Karnataka to sell lottery tickets in the State of Kerala on behalf of the State of Karnataka - If the respondent is not a 'promoter' within the meaning of Section 2(l) of the Act, the charging Section i.e. Section 6 will have no application to make the respondent liable to payment of tax under the Act nor would be the respondent be liable for registration under Section 7 of the Act. In fact, the present appears to be a situation where the activities of the respondent including the terms of appointment as an agent of M/s. MSIL does not make it exigible to any of the provisions of the Act. Appeal dismissed - decided against Revenue.
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