Supreme Court of India

Hotel Balaji and Others Etc. Etc. v. State of Andhra Pradesh and Ors. Etc. Etc.

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Reported as [1992] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 182
Bench S. Ranganathan, V. Ramaswami and B.P. Jeevan Reddy JJ.
Decided 22 October 1992

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we find it difficult to agree with the reasoning of Mukharji, .l, in Goodyear.

Judgment, page 65

From the headnote

Andhra Pradesh General Sales Tax Act, 1957: Section 6- -Levy of tax on turnover relating to purchase of certain goods-Nature of tax-Neither use tax, consumption tax nor consignment tax-Hence valid. Gujarat Sales Tax Act, 1969: Section !SB r/w Rule 42- -Levy of purchase tax-Nanire of tax on purchase price of raw materials and not on manufactured products-Not a tax on consignment-Legislature competent to levy such tax as long as the levy retains the character of tax on sale-Validity of the provision upheld. Uttar Pradesh Sales Tax Act, 1948: Section 3-AAAA--Purchase lax-Levy of-Nature of

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to

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