TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
1998 (12) TMI 584
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.... AG. C.J.-The prayer in these writ petitions is to issue an appropriate writ or order declaring the levy and collection of tax by the first respondent at the check posts on the goods (poultry feed ingredients) brought under valid documents as illegal and against section 38 of the A.P. General Sales Tax Act, 1957 (for short "the Act") and consequently to direct the first respondent to refund the ta....
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....t be summary demand and collection of tax at the check-post without even recording a finding that taxable event had taken place or that there was an attempt to evade the payment of tax. 4.. In the counter-affidavit filed in one of the writ petitions, i.e., Writ Petition No. 10715 of 1998, it is stated that the poultry-farm owners are purchasing the poultry feed and its ingredients from outside th....
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....usion that the documents are spurious or that the consignment of goods is not supported by the requisite documents evidencing bona fide purchase from a registered dealer. Even in such a case, the check-post official is expected to record the reasons and arrive at a finding on the basis of a summary enquiry as per the relevant provisions contained in section 29 of the Act read with rules 46 and 47....
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....e cases. Accordingly, we direct that the officerin-charge of check-post shall not collect any tax on the poultry feed or the ingredients of poultry feed brought from outside the State of Andhra Pradesh if the petitioners' representative or driver-in-charge of the vehicle produces the relevant documents in support of the inter-State purchase from registered dealers. In case the check-post officer ....