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Issues: Whether the appellant-Port Trust was a dealer under Section 2(viii) of the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963 and liable to sales tax on its sale transactions, including whether the decision on the Tamil Nadu statute governed the controversy.
Analysis: Section 2(viii) of the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963 was construed as an inclusive and wide definition. It covered persons carrying on business, and also specified classes of persons and transactions even where the activity was not in the course of business. On that construction, the requirement that the assessee must be engaged in business as a condition precedent to dealer status was absent. The comparison with the Tamil Nadu General Sales Tax Act, 1959 was held to be inapposite because that statute contained a materially narrower definition tied to carrying on business. The earlier Port Trust decision under the Tamil Nadu Act was therefore not treated as governing the case under the Kerala Act.
Conclusion: The appellant-Port Trust was held to be a dealer under Section 2(viii) of the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963 and liable to sales tax.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the taxing statute contains an inclusive definition of dealer that expressly extends to specified sales or transfers whether or not they are in the course of business, dealer status can be attracted without proof of carrying on business.
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