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Issues: Whether bitumenised packing paper, also known as waterproof packing paper, falls within the entry for "paper of all kinds" in the relevant sales tax notifications and is liable to tax at the notified rates applicable to paper.
Analysis: The charging scheme under section 3 and the rate-fixing power under section 3A of the U.P. Sales Tax Act, 1948 authorised the State Government to notify tax rates for specified goods. The relevant notifications used expansive language covering "paper of all kinds" and paper "whether meant for writing, printing, copying, packing or for any other purpose". On that wording, the entry was not confined to plain paper alone. The fact that a layer of bitumen was added between two sheets of craft paper did not change the essential character of the product, and the Tribunal's finding that the commodity was bitumenised packing paper was accepted.
Conclusion: Bitumenised packing paper remained paper within the notification entries and was liable to tax at the rates of 5 per cent and 6 per cent for the relevant periods.
Final Conclusion: The revision succeeded and the Tribunal's view was set aside, with the commodity held taxable as paper under the relevant notifications.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a taxing entry is couched in broad and unambiguous language, a product does not cease to fall within that entry merely because a processing layer is added if its essential character remains the same.
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