1990 (7) TMI 367

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.... the validity of the West Bengal Entertainments and Luxuries (Hotels and Restaurants) Tax Act, 1972, (West Bengal Act XXI of 1972). The principal challenge is as against the validity of Sections 3 and 4. 2. Section 3 provides : An entertainment tax shall be payable by every person who is admitted into or enters any place, within either a hotel or restaurant, which is provided with luxury, wh....

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....ch of the floor area of the hotel which is provided with luxury. 3. To make the picture complete it is also necessary to refer to the definitions of entertainment and luxury. Section 2(b) defines : "entertainment" means any exhibition, performance, amusement, game, sport, cabaret, dance or floor show and includes performance by any singer, musician or bandsman provided in any hotel or restau....

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....alcutta High Court. The single Judge relied on Spences Hotel Pvt. Ltd. v. State of West Bengal 1975 Tax LR 1890. When the matter was taken in appeal the Division Bench dismissed it relying on OmPrakash v. State of West Bengal 1975 Tax LR 1894. Spences Hotel Pvt. Ltd. (supra) relied by learned single Judge was on Section 4. It has been affirmed by the Constitution Bench in Express Hotel Pvt. Ltd. v....