1979 (1) TMI 4

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....g question under s. 256(1) of the Act : " Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Appellate Tribunal was right in law in holding that the assessee was entitled to higher development rebate at 35% under sec. 33(1)(b)(B)(i) ? " The assessee is engaged in the business of purchasing rough castings and supplying the same to the manufacturers of pump-sets, tractors, etc., a....

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....view that the assessee's case would fall under item (5) read with item (24) of the Fifth Schedule and, therefore directed development rebate at the rate of 35%. The Revenue went on appeal to the Tribunal. The Tribunal held that item (5) read with item (24) would apply to the assessee's case and, therefore, it confirmed the allowance of development rebate at 35% as granted by the AAC. The Tribunal'....

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....engines. The higher rate is applicable as provided in s. 33(1)(b)(B)(i), where the machinery or plant is installed for the purpose of business of construction, manufacture or production of any one or more of the articles or things specified in the list in the Fifth Schedule. The short question is whether the machinery which produced the items with which we are now concerned has been installed for ....

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....ng. The word " manufacture " was found to mean, as given in Webster's Dictionary " anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, etc." It was observed at p. 599 : " It seems to us to be unarguable having regard to the meaning of manufacture that the process employed in converting boulders into small chips of stones with the ai....