1955 (7) TMI 12

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....ct works. The grievance ventilated before us is two-fold: Firstly, that the contract was entered into long before this Sales Tax Act came into force; and the benefit under the contract is not liable to be taxed under the Act; and secondly, that the contract related to earth work and there was no sale of goods as such which alone can render the petitioner liable to assessment under the Orissa Sales....

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....ontractors who entered into their contracts before a specified date, from liability to pay tax. He has relied on the proviso to section 4(1) of the Orissa Sales Tax Act. That proviso reads as follows: "Provided that the tax shall not be payable on sales involved in the execution of a contract which is shown to the satisfaction of the Collector to have been entered into by the dealer concerned on o....

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....earned Advocate-General con- tended that it is the date on which the tender was accepted that should determine the date of the contract and not the date of the oral agree- ment under which the contractor performed the contract. As pointed out already payments were made even in March, 1947, for work that had already been completed; and such work could only be done in performance of a contract which....