https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173342 Sales tax classification depends on how a commodity is represented and sold in the market, not merely on its manufacture or the licence held by the manufacturer. A product marketed as "Jeeva soap" was treated as soap rather than an ayurvedic medicine or pharmaceutical preparation because it was sold to customers as a soap and not held out as a medicinal product. On that basis, it fell within the entry for soap other than washing soap and attracted the higher tax rate, while the lower rate for pharmaceutical or ayurvedic products was unavailable. en-us Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:52:47 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173342 Sales tax classification depends on how a commodity is represented and sold in the market, not merely on its manufacture or the licence held by the manufacturer. A product marketed as "Jeeva soap" was treated as soap rather than an ayurvedic medicine or pharmaceutical preparation because it was sold to customers as a soap and not held out as a medicinal product. On that basis, it fell within the entry for soap other than washing soap and attracted the higher tax rate, while the lower rate for pharmaceutical or ayurvedic products was unavailable. Case-Laws VAT and Sales Tax Mon, 24 Mar 2014 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=173342