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Issues: Whether the conversion of wet blue leather into finished leather amounts to manufacture so as to entitle the assessee to the concessional rate of tax and negative any alleged misuse of declaration for purchase of raw materials.
Analysis: The process undertaken by the assessee was examined as a chain of manufacturing stages by which wet blue leather lost its original identity and emerged as finished leather with a distinct commercial identity. The applicable statutory condition under Section 3(3) was that the goods purchased against declaration must be used in connection with manufacturing goods inside the State for sale. Once the process was found to amount to manufacture, the concessional rate remained available and the purchase of chemicals could not be treated as misuse of the declaration form.
Conclusion: The process of converting wet blue leather into finished leather amounts to manufacture, the concessional tax treatment was available, and the assessee was not liable to be assessed at the higher rate on the footing of misuse of declaration.
Final Conclusion: The revision failed and the Tribunal's view in favour of the assessee was sustained.
Ratio Decidendi: A process amounts to manufacture when the original goods lose their identity and emerge as a commercially distinct commodity, making the statutory concession available where the purchased inputs are used for that manufacturing activity.
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