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1955 (3) TMI 24

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..... ommissioner of Commercial Taxes dated 16th December, 1953. The question really is one of fact and not of law. I find from the record that M/s French Motor Car Co. Ltd. have been selling motor cars to certain individuals who pay a part of the price as deposit, the balance being advanced by the petitioners on the purchaser executing an agreement with them for the monthly payment of certain instalme .....

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..... tor Car Co., Ltd. and the petitioners though the petitioners describe themselves as the owners of the motor cars in question in the hire-purchase agree- ment. The actual sale is by M/s French Motor Car Co., Ltd., who pay sales tax under the Bengal Finance (Sales Tax) Act, 1941, in respect of such sales. What the petitioners do is only to advance the balance of the purchase money which the actual p .....

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..... petitioners a mortgagee in respect of the motor car sold by M/s French Motor Car Co. Ltd. to the purchaser. The definition of "sale" given in the Bengal Finance (Sales Tax) Act, 1941, excludes a mortgage, hypothecation, charge or pledge. So quite obviously the transaction in question between the petitioners and the actual pur- chasers of motor cars cannot come under the definition of "sale". Apar .....

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..... f motor cars from the French Motor Car Co. Ltd. But if the petitioners want to enter into hire-purchase agree- ments with the actual purchasers, they may get themselves registered as dealers under the Act so that they may in the first instance buy the motor car outright from M/s French Motor Car Co. Ltd. as registered dealers without paying sales tax, which in that case will be realised from the p .....

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