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TaxTMI 
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2020 (3) TMI 583
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....filed by Coimbatore Cosmopolitan Club aggrieved by the order of the learned Tamil Nadu Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal, Coimbatore dated 05.10.2004 upholding the orders passed by the lower authorities and holing against the Assessee that the Assessee was not entitled to deduction of exempted turnover of the food and drinks which they served in their Club even though they had suffered levy of tax at the first point and were exempted on the second sales made by such Club within their premises to the customers and therefore, on the total turnover of the Assessee, the Assessee was liable to pay tax in terms of the 2% under Section 3-D as it existed prior to its substitution with effect from 1st April 1999 substituted by Act No.28 of 1999. The reas....
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....78/- along is assessed to tax U/S 3-D. Total turnover disclosed is Rs. 82,56,668/- for 1998-99 and the taxable turnover disclosed is Rs. 33,74,613/- for 1997-98. After scrutiny of the assessment made for 1997-98, the Assessing Authority has concluded that the total turnover is liable for assessment U/S 3-D and effected revision on 31.8.01 assessing the total turnover determined levying 2% tax as the total turnover determined has exceeded Rs. 50 Lakhs. Thus, the revision made is on 31.8.01 for 1998-99, exemption claimed is disallowed and the original assessment made on 10.8.00 and the same is assessed to tax U/s 3-D levying 2% tax as the total turnover determined based on books of accounts is more than Rs. 50 Lakhs. The appellants claim for ....
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.... provisions and since in the new provisions of Section 3-D of the Act, the exempted turnover of soft drinks etc. which were not taxable in the hands of the Assessee Club being the second sales, only the net turnover could be considered as total turnover and that being less than the prescribed limit of Rs. 50 Lakhs, the Assessee was entitled to pay tax as per the slabs of taxation provided in Part-A of the Ninth Schedule to the Act and not at 2% as per 3-D of the Act. 3.On the other hand, the learned Special Government Pleader Mr.Mohammed Shaffiq submitted that the definition of the "total turnover" is given in Section 2(q) of the TNGST Act read with Rules 5 and 6 of the TNGST Rules makes it clear that the exempted turnover is also a part....
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....complied with; (c) all amounts falling under the following three heads when specified and charged for by the dealer separately, without including them in the price of the goods sold:- (i) freight; (ii) [......] (iii) charges for delivery; (cc) [.....] (d) [.......] (e) all amounts for which goods are sold or purchased in the course of export of the goods out of the territory of India or in the course of import of the goods into the territory of India or in the course of inter-State trade or commerce; (f) [....] (g) all amounts for which goods specified in First, Second and Sixth Schedules to the Act are sold or purchased by a dealer provided that the sale or pu....
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....ade thereunder. The total turnover obviously would include the total turnover of all the goods made by the Assessee, irrespective of the liability to pay tax thereon. If the turnover in question is exempted from payment of tax, it would nonetheless remain part of the "total turnover" even though it may not form part of the "taxable turnover". Section 3-D of the Act as it stood prior to 01.04.1999 clearly mentioned the "total turnover" for applying the said flat rate of 2% tax. Even after amendment from 01.04.1999, the words "total turnover" have been employed in said Section 3-D of the Act. We do not find any merit in the argument raised by the learned counsel for the Assessee that the provisions after its substitution from 01.04.1999 sh....