TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
1987 (7) TMI 570
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....ity found that they had built 22 hulls as per agreement executed with the Director General of Supplies and Disposals, Government of India, and sold them to the Indian Navy for a sum of Rs. 5,55,000. The assessing authority sought to assess the said turnover to tax under the Central Sales Tax Act. The assessee objected to the said assessment contending that the agreement entered into with the Director General of Supplies and Disposals was in the nature of a contract for work and labour and did not evidence a contract for sale of goods. The objection raised by the assessee was overruled and assessment was made on the said turnover. On appeal, the Additional Appellate Assistant Commissioner of Agricultural Income-tax and Sales Tax, Ernakulam, ....
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....the company. As per the terms of the agreement the bricks so manufactured were to remain at the appellant's risk till delivery to the company. The contention raised by the company was that the contract was not one for sale but was one for work. Repelling that contention, their Lordships found the contract to be a contract of sale on the ground that it was a contract for the transfer of chattels qua chattels since the essence of the contract was the delivery of bricks. Again in Patnaik and Company v. State of Orissa [1965] 16 STC 364, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court had considered the question whether the contract entered into between the appellant and the State was one for work and labour or whether it was a contract for sale of g....
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....the contract. The contractor was obliged to provide adequate opportunity to the Inspector of Shipping to supervise the execution of the contract at all stages of the work. If the Inspector finds any work to be defective, the purchaser had the right to reject the same and to get it substituted at the cost of the contractor. The contract further enabled the purchaser to declare the same to have come to an end in case it is found that the contractor is unable to perform the work. Clause 18 of the contract enjoined the contractor to take insurance in the name of the purchaser. Under clause 19, the contractor is bound to provide for the care and protection of the work, machineries, etc. As per clause 20, after the completion of the work the purc....
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.... movement of goods from one State to another." We are unable to agree with the above conclusions for the following reasons. 6.. As per the terms of the contract entered into between the parties, payments were to be made by the purchaser at various stages of the construction. The first instalment, 15 per cent of the value is to be paid when keel is laid. As the work progresses further instalments are to be paid. The entire amount is thus divided into five or six instalments depending on the nature of the craft. As per clause 18 of the contract, the contractor has to get the vessel insured in the name of the purchaser, before the payment of the first instalment is actually effected. The relevant provision is: "The contractor shall im....
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....ontractor, will not in any way go to make the purchaser the owner of the craft or machinery which is in the course of construction. Clause 19, inter alia, provided that the contractor shall be in charge of and entirely responsible for the care and efficient protection and working of the vessel, and all the machinery and things supplied and connected with it, until the said vessel and machinery, boilers and other things have been tried and accepted by the purchaser as satisfactory under the condition 's of the order. This provision makes it abundantly clear that the contractor continues to be the owner of the craft and all the articles attached to it. It is further provided in unmistakable terms, that in case the vessel or part thereof is de....