2020 (8) TMI 136

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....g the tax on sale of Duty of Entitlement Pass Book (DEPB). In the notice issued by the respondent, it was claimed that since the relevant exports have been transacted at Chennai, the transfer of DEPB credit had to be in Tamil Nadu. 3. The petitioner had contended that the pass book was issued and delivered in Mumbai and the sale of delivery of the pass book was completed in Maharashtra, for which, Maharashtra VAT was paid under the MVAT Act. The respondent do not have the jurisdiction to levy tax on sale of DEPB. 4. The object of DEPB scheme is to neutralize the incidence of customs duty of the import content of the export product. The neutralization is granted by way of grant of duty credit against the export product, thereby enabling th....

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....In Yasha Overseas V. Commissioner of Sales Tax and others ((2008) 17 VST 182) the Supreme Court (placitum 64 of the report) states that both DEPB and Replenishment licences (REP licence) are identical in nature and that both licences are exigible to sales tax. There is no dispute on this position. 11. The sole argument of the Revenue is that the petitioner is an exporter, exporting and importing from the Tuticorin Port. Clause 4.3.4 of the Foreign Trade Policy containing the DEPB Scheme makes it clear that the passbook is issued only in regard to a specified Port, which in this case is Tuticorin. This then is the only nexus which the State of Tamil Nadu has to the transaction in question and in my considered view, is insufficient to bring....