1991 (1) TMI 396

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.... Satyanarayan Oil Stores at 6, Ganga Prasad Mukherjee Road, Calcutta-25, of which the applicants are partners. After the passing of that order of assessment an appeal was preferred before the learned Assistant Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Calcutta South Circle on two-fold grounds, viz., (a) disallowance of claim of Rs. 92,428.93 as turnover of sales of coconut oil and (b) inclusion of Rs. 5,000 in the gross turnover on the ground of sales of empty containers. The appeal failed. A revisional application preferred before the West Bengal Commercial Taxes Tribunal also failed. As such, an application under article 226 of the Constitution was filed by the applicants in the High Court, Calcutta, against inclusion of these two amounts in the ....

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....s that the coconut oil sold by the applicants was used as hair-oil by the persons to whom the coconut oil was sold, the coconut oil should be treated as hair-oil and as notified commodity under the Act of 1954. The contention of the learned State Representative, on the other hand, is that when even as per the case of the applicants the sale of oil by the applicants was not in packed containers, the oil sold by the applicants cannot be treated as hair-oil and as notified commodity. It, however, appears that the West Bengal Commercial Taxes Tribunal maintained the assessment made by the learned Commercial Tax Officer after observing that coconut oil sold by the applicants was used by the people in West Bengal primarily as hair-oil. A perusal ....