TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
1959 (9) TMI 42
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....dras State till 30th September, 1953; thereafter it became part of the Andhra Pradesh. The dispute relates to the turnover in respect of the goods tanned at Chittoor after 1st October, 1953. The contention of the assessee was that the hides and skins, though purchased in the State, if tanned outside the State, would be liable to be taxed only under the provisions of rule 16(4) of the (Turnover and Assessment) Rules, that is, at the stage of sale by the first dealer after they were tanned, and that, or in the present case, the tanned goods were exported to foreign countries, no tax could be levied by reason of Article 286 of the Constitution. Neither the Commercial Tax Officer nor the Appellate Tribunal accepted this contention. The Appellat....
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....hat the assessee's main business was to purchase untanned hides and skins, get them tanned and sell the same. We do not consider that, in order to render a person liable as a tanner, he should personally tan the goods; nor is it necessary that he should tan them in a tannery either owned by him or in which he had an interest. Recently, we had to consider the latter part of the question in T.R.C. No. 64 of 1956* where we held that a person who tans in the course of his business raw hides and skins bought by him, in a tannery which was not his, would be liable to be assessed in respect of the raw hides and skins purchased as a tanner. The conclusion of the Appellate Tribunal is, therefore, correct. On the second question, the case for the ass....
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....es or skins have been tanned in a tannery which has paid the tax leviable under the Act. If such hides or skins have been tanned in a tannery which is exempt from taxation under section 3(3), the sale of such Since reported as Sri Jey Cherish and Co., Ltd. v. The State of Madras [1960] 11 S.T.C. 353. hides or skins shall be liable to taxation as under the next sub-rule below dealing with hides or skins tanned outside the State. (4) Sales by licensed dealers in hides or skins which have been tanned outside the State shall be exempt from taxation except at the stage of sale by the dealer who is the first dealer not exempt from taxation under section 3(3) who sells them within the State. The tax shall be levied from such dealer on the amount f....
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....d only if the application of rule 16(2) is restricted to the case of goods tanned within the State of Madras, rule 16(4) being applied to cases where it was tanned outside. The tax under the Act is on the transaction of sale. Under section 5(vi), in regard to sale of hides and skins, whether tanned or untanned, the tax shall be levied only at such single point as may be prescribed. It is unnecessary to consider, for the purpose of the present case, whether untanned hides and skins become in law different after being tanned so as to entitle the State to tax both of them without infringing the rule as to single point levy. We shall proceed on the assumption that they are the same for the purposes of application of section 5(vi), and that l....