TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
1971 (10) TMI 100
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.... waste material resultant on the main business activity of the assessee, is liable to tax under the Punjab General Sales Tax Act? The Financial Commissioner declined to refer the said questions of law and on an application made by the assessee under section 22(2) of the Punjab General Sales Tax Act, 1948, this court directed the Sales Tax Tribunal to refer the said questions of law for the opinion of this court. The assessee, Messrs. Atlas Cycle Industries Ltd., Sonepat, is engaged in the business of manufacture of cycles and their parts for sale. During the manufacturing process certain waste material, such as scrap iron, is produced. This material is sold by the assessee. In the returns for the assessment years 1957-58, 1958-59, 1959-6....
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....sation in circular No. 40/August, 1963. The appellate authority rejected the contention of the assessee and affirmed the order of the assessing authority on these two matters. Against the order of the Deputy Excise and Taxation Commissioner, the assessee filed a revision petition before the joint Excise and Taxation Commissioner. The joint Excise and Taxation Commissioner allowed the revision petition so far as the claim of the assessee with regard to the sale of scrap iron was concerned, but he rejected the contention of the assessee with regard to the sales of provisions. The assessee then went up in further revision against the order of the Joint Excise and Taxation Commissioner with regard to the matter of sale of provisions to its e....
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.... basis or even on "hire-purchase" basis, to its employees. The assessee took a clear stand before the departmental authorities that no profit was being made and the transfer of those articles was on "no-profitno-loss" basis. A similar matter fell for consideration before the Calcutta High Court in The Indian Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. v. Member, Board of Revenue, West Bengal[1971] 27 S.T.C. 373. under the Bengal Finance (Sales Tax) Act, 1941, and it was held that: "A person cannot be a 'dealer' under the Bengal Finance (Sales Tax) Act, 1941, unless he carries on the business of selling goods in a commercial sense. In other words, activity of a commercial character must be clearly established before a person can be brought into the net ....
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....urnover of the assessee. This decision was approved by the Supreme court in The State of Gujarat v. Raipur Manufacturing Co. Ltd.[1967] 19 S.T.C. 1 (S.C.). The ratio of the Supreme Court decision is that by-products or subsidiary products arising in the course of manufacturing process, if they are disposed of in a regular manner would form part of the business of the assessee, because to quote the words of the Supreme Court, "when such subsidiary product is turned out in the factory regularly and continuously and is being sold from time to time, an intention to carry on business in that commodity may be reasonably attributed to the assessee." Therefore, in every case what will have to be seen is, what is the main business of the assessee an....