1974 (7) TMI 105

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....ales Tax Act, 1957, preferred by the State relates to the assessment year 21st March, 1967, to 20th November, 1967, and it is directed against the order dated 22nd November, 1972, in S.T.A. No. 222 of 1972, on the file of the Mysore Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal, Bangalore. The matter arises this way: The respondent is a dealer under the Karnataka Sales Tax Act, 1957, hereinafter called the "Act".....

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..... State of Mysore[1970] 25 S.T.C. 182. The correctness of the said decision has been challenged in this revision petition by the State. In State of Mysore v. S.S. Dhundushi[1975] 35 S.T.C. 411 at 412; (1973) 2 Mys. L.J. 445 at 446., this court held that the amendment of section 18(1) of the Act which came into force on 1st April, 1966, has not made any difference in the position of law as laid dow....

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....td. v. State of Bihar[1970] 26 S.T.C. 254 (S.C.). An extract from the judgment in the said case was relied upon in the case of A.B. Manufacturing Co(4). This is what Shah, J., as he then was, stated in the case of Ashoka Marketing Ltd.(5): "The State Legislature may under entry 54, List II, be competent to enact a law in respect of matters necessarily incidental to 'tax on the sale and purchase o....