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Issues: Whether the products Thermoseal and RA Thermoseal, though medicinal in character, were excluded from the medicinal entry under the Bombay Sales Tax Act on the ground that they were products capable of being used as toothpaste.
Analysis: The medicinal entry in Schedule Entry C-I-24 expressly excluded products capable of being used as toothpaste. The products were found to serve a dual purpose: relief and prevention of teeth sensitivity, and cleaning of teeth in a manner understood in common parlance as toothpaste use. The marketing material and the manner of use showed that they were formulated for regular brushing and tooth cleaning, and the fact that they also had medicinal contents did not prevent their classification as products capable of being used as toothpaste. Applying the common parlance test, the exclusion in the medicinal entry was attracted.
Conclusion: The products were correctly held to fall outside the medicinal entry and were classifiable as toothpaste. The reference questions were answered in the affirmative, against the assessee and in favour of the Revenue.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a taxing entry expressly excludes products capable of being used as toothpaste, a product that is understood in common parlance as serving a toothpaste function cannot claim classification under the medicinal entry merely because it also has therapeutic properties.
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