2013 (7) TMI 917

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....MATHEW P. JOSEPH JJ. A. Kumar, S. Anil Kumar (Trivandrum), K. S. Hariharan Nair, K. Umamaheswar, Vijayan K. U. and K. N. Sreekumaran for the petitioner. Boby John and Boby Joseph Government Pleaders, for the respondents. JUDGMENT These appeals are by automobile spare parts dealers registered under the Kerala Value Added Tax Act, 2003, for short, "the KVAT Act". They trade in automobile....

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....x has over looked the Rules of Interpretation of Schedules appended to the KVAT Act, as also the General Rules for the Interpretation provided in the First Schedule to the Customs Tariff Act, 1975; for short, "the Tariff Act"; while interpreting Sl. No. 67(7) of SRO No. 82/06 even without referring to entry 3(8)(h) of the Third Schedule to the KVATAct. The learned counsel appearing for the appella....

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....ssified in accordance with the Rules, is to be classified under the heading "appropriate to the goods to which they are most akin". Under section 6 of the KVAT Act, goods specified in the Second and Third Schedules thereto are charged to duty at the rates specified therein, whereas goods not falling within those two Schedules are assessable to duty under separate notifications to be issued by t....

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....terpretation of the Schedules to the KVAT Act are decisive and the KVAT Act is aligned with customs tariff which, in turn, is aligned with HSN and consequently, each product in question was required to be seen in the context of HSN code and judgments based thereon. The consideration of the matter by the Commissioner, as evidenced by the impugned order dated December 14, 2006, does not reflect a....