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TMI Blog1987 (6) TMI 379X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... year 1977-78. In assessing the petitioner, the assessing authority added the value of the goods returned to the assessee by certain purchasers without taking delivery, by holding that they are sales attracting levy of sales tax, under the provisions of the Kerala General Sales Tax Act. The said turnover amounts to Rs. 2,84,802.10. In appeal, the Deputy Commissioner (Appeals) held that the sale wa ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ee has got the right to recall the goods or to consider the property in the goods to be assessee's own to enforce the conditions in the invoice. But, these conditions are not in keeping with the provisions of the Kerala General Sales Tax Act where a sale emanates at the point of appropriation of goods as per a previous contract. The assessee has come up in revision. 2.. We heard counsel for the ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ods will remain with the company until payment of the invoice amount is received by the company either direct from the purchaser or from the company's bankers against retirement of documents of title to the goods. The Appellate Tribunal wholly misunderstood section 2(xxi), explanation (4) to hold that there was an appropriation outright in this case. There was no such appropriation. Since there wa ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ional. It is evident that this condition was not fulfilled. On this basis, there is no escape from the position that the sale did not fructify. If that basis, there was no sale exigible to tax. The assessing authority as well as the Appellate Tribunal were in error in holding that such unfructified sale will be exigible to tax. The Deputy Commissioner (Appeals) was justified in holding that the ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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