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Issues: Whether turpentine falls within Entry 27 of the First Schedule to the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963 as "paints, colours, lacquers and varnishes", and whether a Government notification issued under the removal-of-difficulties power could enlarge that entry to include turpentine.
Analysis: Entry 27 was held to cover only substances which by themselves answer the description of paints, colours, lacquers or varnishes and are capable of being directly applied to impart colour or shine. Turpentine, though used as a solvent or thinner in paint and varnish, is not itself a substance of that kind. The Court approved the ejusdem generis construction adopted in the cited Bombay decision and held that the entry had to be read in its plain and ordinary meaning. The notification issued under the removal-of-difficulties power could not add to or alter the enacted entry, because such a power cannot be used to modify the statute or control the true scope of an unambiguous legislative provision.
Conclusion: Turpentine does not fall within Entry 27 of the First Schedule to the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963, and its turnover is taxable only at the general rate. The challenge by the Revenue fails.
Final Conclusion: The statutory entry was confined to items that are themselves paints, colours, lacquers or varnishes, and subordinate executive action could not expand its scope; the assessee succeeded and the revision was dismissed.
Ratio Decidendi: A removal-of-difficulties notification cannot enlarge or modify the scope of a clear taxing entry, and turpentine, being merely a solvent or thinner, is not included within an entry limited to paints, colours, lacquers and varnishes.
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