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Issues: Whether the processing and supplying of photographs, photo prints and photo negatives constituted a works contract involving transfer of property in goods and was exigible to tax under the Assam General Sales Tax Act, 1993.
Analysis: The constitutional scheme under Article 366(29A)(b) of the Constitution of India deems the transfer of property in goods involved in the execution of a works contract to be a sale. On that basis, the statutory definitions in the Assam General Sales Tax Act, 1993, including the definition of "sale" and "works contract", together with section 8(1)(e) and Schedule VI, brought within the tax net processing and supplying of photographs. The Court held that the petitioners' activity fell squarely within Item 24 of Schedule VI and that the later larger-Bench authority had disapproved the earlier view that such activity was only a service contract. The contrary decisions relied upon by the petitioners were treated as per incuriam in light of the later binding authority.
Conclusion: The activity was a taxable works contract and the impugned assessments and demands were valid.
Final Conclusion: The challenge to the tax liability failed, and the assessment orders and demands were sustained.
Ratio Decidendi: After the Forty-sixth Amendment, a contract that involves processing and supply of goods as part of a works contract is taxable on the value of goods involved, even if the dominant element of the transaction is service.
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