2004 (9) TMI 624

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....Mr. J. Singh, learned Standing Counsel, N.F. Railway, appearing for the official respondents. This batch of writ petitions carries a common question of law based on same and identical fact-situation and as such all these petitions are heard analogously and being disposed of by this common judgment and order. The core question involved in this host of writ petitions is whether section 27 of the Assam General Sales Tax Act, 1993 (in short, "the Act") authorises the Government departments, while deducting taxes at source for the transfer of property in goods involved in a works contract specified in Schedule VI, to deduct taxes at source on the labour components and declared goods under section 8(3)(iv) of the Act and goods obtained in t....

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....in the above-cited precedents and the State respondents were restrained from making any deduction of tax at source from the entire bill amount of the works contract of the petitioners therein with a liberty to the State respondents to deduct tax at source from the bills of the petitioners after excluding therefrom the labour, engineering and other service charges as well as turnover of declared goods, tax-paid goods and goods obtained in the course of inter-State trade within India for being used in the related work in terms of the related provisions of the Act of 1993 and the Rules framed thereunder, the State authorities, despite such accepted legal position, have been continuing to tax the petitioners in terms of section 27 of the Act. S....

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....e contractors executing works contract where deduction of tax at source under section 27 is made. (4) In the Schedule of exempted items and taxable items, which were amended vide notifications dated December 24, 1999 and January 27, 2000, Schedule I is in respect of exemption of items and Schedule II provides for tax at the point of first sale. Rule 19 was amended during the pendency of this case and rule 19(2) was amended-'omitted' with effect from January 19, 2000. Prior to the omission it read as follows: '(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in sub-rule (1), the dealers specified in section 2(10)(iv) shall not be entitled to use the declaration in form A.' Thus, in the light of sub-rule (2) the contractor or a....