1986 (9) TMI 258

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....uestion, namely, detergent cakes, are ordinarily sold and declaring, in particular, the normal trade discount to be nil. The assessable value declared was in a sum of Rs. 149.07 per 108 cakes; (b) a notice, dated 5-11-1980 alleging, inter alia, (i) sales at a price higher than the one declared in the price list w.e.f. 3-1-1980, (ii) consequent increase in the assessable value of the goods in question - Rs. 154.19 instead of Rs. 149.07 as originally declared - resulting in differential duty in a sum of Rs. 42,825.09 during the period between 3-1-1980 and 30-4-1980, and requiring the appellant to show cause as to why the aforesaid demand for differential duty should not be confirmed and recovered and a penalty levied in terms of Rule....

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....s issued on 1-8-1984; (e) in a reply, dated 4-9-1984, the appellant stated, inter alia, that - (i) in submitting the aforesaid price list, they were solely guided by the ratio of the decision in the Voltas case [1977 E.L.T. 177]. (ii) accordingly, the price list had revealed merely the manufacturing cost and duty thereon and they had shown "the extras under the head post manufacturing expenses and distribution expenses in the invoices concerned." (iii) "as the judgment was binding on all concerned, we thought it prudent on our part to furnish only the manufacturing cost for purposes of assessment and got it approved initially. The rest, such as trade discount, freight, and distribution expenses were all treated as post manufactu....

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....msp;To say that we are surprised at the manoeuvre and the assumed airs of naivete by the appellant is merely an understatement. 3. (a) Section 4 of the Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944 was amended after the judgment in the Voltas case and detailed provisions in relation to the inclusion or exclusion, as the case may be, of various elements of the price at which goods are ordinarily sold in the computation of the assessable value were enacted therein. The procedure for the determination of the assessable value, the forms in which price lists have to be filed were all prescribed. It was for the appropriate officer to determine the assessable value excluding from it such elements of the price (at which goods are ordinarily sold) that....