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Issues: Whether standing rubber trees sold by the assessees are timber exigible to sales tax, and consequently excluded from agricultural produce under Explanation I(ii) to Section 2(xxvii) of the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963.
Analysis: The statutory definition of turnover excludes proceeds from sale of agricultural or horticultural produce, while the explanation specifically removes tea, coffee, rubber, cardamom and timber from that category. The determinative question was whether standing rubber trees, sold for felling and removal, answer the legal meaning of "timber". Applying the accepted judicial meaning of timber and the common parlance approach, the Court relied on the distinction between a living tree and standing timber, and on the practical commercial understanding of timber as wood fit for building or similar structural use. The materials placed on record showed that rubberwood is susceptible to fungal and insect attack, requires immediate treatment after felling, and is not inherently fit for long-term structural use without such treatment. On that basis, the Court held that the standing rubber trees sold under the agreements could not be treated as timber merely because they were intended for removal and sale.
Conclusion: The standing rubber trees were not timber exigible to tax and were agricultural produce within the meaning of Explanation I(ii) to Section 2(xxvii) of the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963. The levy of sales tax on the turnover from such sales was unsustainable.
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