Supreme Court of India

State of Mysore v. Yaddalam Lakshminarasimhaiah Setty and Sons

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Reported as [1965] 2 S.C.R. 129
Bench K. Subba Rao J.
Decided 10 November 1964

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons we hold, though for different rea­ sons, that the order of the High Court is correct.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Though s. 6 of the Central Act is the charging section the liability to pay tax is subject to the other provisions in the Act. Section 8(2) provides that tax shall be calculated at the same rates and in the same manner as would have been done if the sale bad in fact, taken place inside the appropriate State, and s. 9 proyides that, under the Central Act, tax shall be levied in the same manner as the tax on the sale or purchase of goods, under the general sales tax law of the State is assessed, paid and collected. The word "levied" means "impooed" and since s. 5(3) (a) of the Mysore Sales Tax

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