TMI Blog2006 (12) TMI 472X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... f 2000 the facts referred to in the said T.R.C. are considered by us for our decision. In fact all the subsequent orders of the Tribunal are based on their order produced in T.R.C. No. 419 of 2000. The assessees were admittedly engaged in massive purchase of red oil from unregistered dealers who have not collected or remitted any sales tax on their sales to the assessees. Red oil is manufactured out of sandalwood, source of which is only forest in Kerala and Karnataka. In fact the assessing officer rightly pointed out that layman from whom assessees claimed to have purchased red oil cannot produce and sell the same because red oil can be extracted from sandalwood through an elaborate process which could be done in a factory. It is a noto ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ssees. The contention of the assessees before the Tribunal was that there was no chemical use in the manufacture and all what is achieved in the process engaged in the factory is removal of impurities and water from red oil. The assessees relied on several decisions including that of the Supreme Court in Tungabhadra Industries Ltd. v. Commercial Tax Officer [1960] 11 STC 827. The Tribunal accepted the contentions of the assessees and held that there was no manufacture of a new product as the process involved did not involve use of any chemical and all what the assessees have done is removal of impurities and water from red oil. We have heard Special Government Pleader appearing for the Staterevision petitioner in all the cases, and Senio ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... final product which is evident from the purchase value accounted by the assessees for raw material and the value of the final product received by them on sale. Even though assessees contention that manufacture under the Excise Act is not the same as manufacture under section 5A of the Act, which found acceptance with the Tribunal, we are unable to uphold the claim of the assessees upheld by the Tribunal, because assessees have not made any claim that excise duty is paid by them without any dispute by virtue of any special provision in the Excise Act providing for duty in respect of any other activity other than manufacturing in this case. Even though counsel for the assessees relied on large number of decisions of the Supreme Court and Hig ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... TC 100 (Ker); Deputy Commissioner of Sales Tax v. Mohan Jewellery [1988] 71 STC 256 (Ker) and Anwarkhan Mahboob Co. v. State of Bombay [1960] 11 STC 698 (SC); AIR 1961 SC 213, we do not find any decision directly applicable to the facts of this case. In fact Supreme Court has, though in the context of the Income-tax Act in Aspinwall and Co. Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income-tax case [2002] 125 STC 101 (SC), held that just removal of husk/covering from coffee berry to separate coffee beans is a manufacturing activity. Apart from this decision, in large number of decisions, the Supreme Court has held that the process of making goods commercially different from raw material with distinct name, character and use, amounts to manufacture of a p ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... (4) or (5) of section 5 and either, (a) consumes such goods in the manufacture of other goods for sale or otherwise; or (b) uses or disposes of such goods in any manner other than by way of sale in the State; or (c) despatches them to any place outside the State except as a direct result of sale or purchase in the course of inter-State trade or commerce; shall, whatever be the quantum of the turnover relating to such purchase for a year, pay tax on the taxable turnover relating to such purchase for the year at the rates mentioned in section 5. (2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-section (1), a dealer (other than a casual trader or agent of a non-resident dealer) purchasing goods, the sale of which is liable to tax u ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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