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Issues: (i) Whether the transactions for supply, design, erection, testing and commissioning of the rotary kiln were intra-State sales exigible to Orissa sales tax despite payment of Central Sales Tax and were covered by Section 6(2) of the Central Sales Tax Act; (ii) Whether the penalty imposed under Section 12(5) of the Orissa Sales Tax Act, 1947 ought to have been deleted in entirety.
Issue (i): Whether the transactions for supply, design, erection, testing and commissioning of the rotary kiln were intra-State sales exigible to Orissa sales tax despite payment of Central Sales Tax and were covered by Section 6(2) of the Central Sales Tax Act.
Analysis: The documents showed that the components were manufactured or procured from outside the State and moved into Orissa for erection, testing and commissioning of the kiln. The decisive factor was the inter-State movement of goods originating outside the State and received for execution of the contract, not the subsequent assembly at site. The conclusion that the transaction was an intra-State sale and a colourable device was unsustainable on the record. The transaction remained exigible under Section 6(2) of the Central Sales Tax Act and could not be treated as an intra-State sale for Orissa sales tax purposes.
Conclusion: The issue was answered in favour of the assessee and against the Department. The orders treating the transaction as an intra-State sale were set aside.
Issue (ii): Whether the penalty imposed under Section 12(5) of the Orissa Sales Tax Act, 1947 ought to have been deleted in entirety.
Analysis: Once the transaction was held not to be an intra-State sale exigible to Orissa sales tax in the manner found by the authorities, the basis for sustaining the penalty did not survive. The penalty could not stand independently on the footing adopted by the Tribunal.
Conclusion: The issue was answered in favour of the assessee. The Tribunal was not justified in declining to delete the penalty in entirety.
Final Conclusion: The revision succeeded. The impugned orders were set aside and the petitioner obtained relief on both the tax characterization issue and the penalty issue.
Ratio Decidendi: Where goods move from outside the State for execution of a contract and are received in the State for supply and erection, the transaction cannot be branded as an intra-State sale merely because the goods are assembled or commissioned at site; the character of the movement and supply remains determinative.
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