TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
1978 (11) TMI 140
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.... General Sales Tax Act of 1948, as applicable to Haryana, was rejected by the taxation authorities. However, the petitioner succeeded in getting the following question referred under section 22(2) of the Act to this Court: "Whether the supply of goods to its employees by the assessee-company on hire and purchase basis without profit-motive is liable to sales tax?" A Division Bench of this Court answered the question in favour of the petitioner, vide Atlas Cycle Industries Ltd. v. State of Haryana[1972] 29 S.T.C. 730. Thereafter, the petitioner moved the taxation authorities for the refund of the sales tax deposited by it. During the pendency of the refund proceedings, the Punjab Act abovesaid was repealed by the Haryana General Sales Tax....
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....ne or any action taken, shall be deemed to have been done or taken in the exercise of the powers conferred by or under this Act, as if this Act were in force on the date on which such thing was done or action was taken, and all arrears of tax and other amounts due under the repealed Act, at the commencement of this Act, may be recovered as if they had accrued under this Act." Accordingly, it was urged that the Division Bench decision of this Court, now reported as Atlas Cycle Industries Ltd. v. State of Haryana[1972] 29 S.T.C. 730., being final, the retrospective amendment of the term "dealer" did not in any way affect the right of the petitioner to get the sales tax refunded. On the other hand, the learned Advocate-General contended that ....