Court Rules Rusk Is Bread for Tax Purposes: Same Process, Moisture Extraction Isn't Manufacturing.

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....Classification of goods - Bread-Rusk - Process of manufacturing - The burden or onus is on the respondent authorities to establish by placing on record cogent, convincing and substantive evidence to show that Rusk is not Bread so as to bring it under the residuary entry under Part-IV of Schedule-B so as to impose tax on Rusk and Toast at the rate specified under the residuary entry. - Once the Court agrees that the raw material as also the manufacturing process for Bread and Rusk is same and thereafter only the moisture is extracted, would not term that activity to be falling within the meaning of “manufacturer” as used in the Act. - HC....