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Issues: Whether purchase tax on paddy purchased by rice processors was leviable under the Trade Tax Act despite the exemption notification, and whether the Tribunal was correct in treating the cited Supreme Court observations as inapplicable.
Analysis: The revisions arose from additions made on the basis of purchase tax levied on paddy under the departmental assessment. The Tribunal had deleted the additions on the footing that the Supreme Court observations relied upon were concerned with a different statutory context and that Notification No. 2947 dated 11.12.1995 issued by the State expressly granted exemption from tax on the purchase of paddy. The High Court found that the notification operated in favour of the assessees and that the Tribunal had reasonably distinguished the earlier Supreme Court observations.
Conclusion: The levy of purchase tax on paddy was not sustained, and the Tribunal's deletion of the additions was upheld in favour of the assessees.
Final Conclusion: The departmental revisions failed, and the impugned orders were sustained because the exemption notification governed the assessment years in question.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a valid exemption notification squarely covers the purchase of paddy, tax cannot be levied merely by relying on observations from a different statutory context, especially when those observations are distinguishable on facts and law.
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