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Issues: Whether, for the purposes of Section 8(f)(ii) of the Kerala Value Added Tax Act, 2003, the expression relating to holding of stock refers to the actual running stock held in the previous year and not to sales turnover, and whether the matter required remand for fresh consideration.
Analysis: The relevant provision empowered cancellation of permission where the stock held exceeded double the quantity held in the previous year. The correct comparison was therefore with the running stock of the business in the previous year, not with the turnover or sales effected. While making that comparison, the Assessing Officer could also take into account the quantity of gold kept with goldsmiths for manufacture of ornaments. The Tribunal's interpretation that the provision contemplated running stock and not turnover was upheld, but the factual exercise had not been undertaken by the Assessing Officer on that basis.
Conclusion: The interpretation accepted by the Tribunal was affirmed, and the matter was remanded to the Assessing Officer for fresh consideration on the basis of running stock.
Final Conclusion: The assessee succeeded on the question of interpretation, but the assessment issue was sent back for reconsideration in accordance with that interpretation.
Ratio Decidendi: For a stock-based disqualification provision, the relevant comparison is between the actual running stock held in the two years and not between stock and sales turnover, and the authority must decide the matter on that basis.
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