Supreme Court Supports Retroactive Sales Tax Limits; Cites Promissory Estoppel and Section 41BB for Economic Development.

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....Doctrine of Promissory Estoppel - while upholding the retrospective restriction of sales tax exemption, Apex Court observed that, "at the time of insertion of Section 41BB by amendment vide Amendment Act 22 of 2001, the Statement of Objects and Reasons accompanying the introduction of the Bill specifically stated that the purpose of the amendment was ‘to restrict grant of incentives in proportion to goods manufactured in the expansion units located in the backward areas of the States’."....