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Issues: Whether a cool drink house supplying cool drinks, ice-creams, fruit juice and aerated water falls within the meaning of a restaurant for the purpose of exemption under the notification issued under the Andhra Pradesh General Sales Tax Act, 1957.
Analysis: The exemption notification granted relief to dealers running restaurants, eating houses or hotels with turnover up to the prescribed limit from sales tax on supplies of food or drinks. The expression "restaurant" was construed in its ordinary extended sense as a place where meals or refreshments may be had, and refreshments were understood to include food or drink. On that construction, a place supplying cool drinks, fruit juice, aerated water and ice-cream was held to answer the description of a restaurant. The purpose of the notification was also taken to be the relief of small eating houses and similar establishments from sales tax burden.
Conclusion: The cool drink house fell within the benefit of the exemption and the Tribunal's view was upheld.
Final Conclusion: The revision cases failed because the exemption applied to the respondent's establishment, and the assessment to sales tax could not be disturbed.
Ratio Decidendi: For the purpose of a tax exemption notification, the term "restaurant" may be given an extended meaning to include a place where refreshments such as cool drinks, ice-cream and similar drinks are supplied, if that construction accords with the object of the exemption.
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