TMI Blog1988 (6) TMI 318X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ns" in entry 3 in the First Schedule to the A.P. General Sales Tax Act, 1957, the televisions or parts and accessories thereof can be taxed under the said entry 3 or should they be taxed as general goods under section 5 of the Act. Entry 3 before the amendment read as under: "3. Wireless reception instruments and apparatus, radios, radio gramophones, electrical valves, accumulators, amplifiers a ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... t. The reasoning runs thus: A radio is a wireless reception instrument. A television is merely an improvement upon radio. Whereas in radio you only get sound, in television you get sound and light, i.e., picture. The wireless reception instrument means a reception instrument without a wire. The television is therefore a wireless reception instrument. It is further contended by the learned Governme ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... learned Government Pleader that it cannot be stated as a rule of law that whenever particular goods are included in a particular entry by way of an amendment, those goods have become taxable under the entry for the first time. That may not be the only or the necessary inference. Very often amendments are made with a view to clarify the matter or by way of abundant caution or to leave no room for ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... meaning of the word "television" in the same dictionary is given in the following words: "System for reproducing actual or recorded scene at a distance on a screen, etc., by radio transmission, usu. with appropriate sounds; vision of distant objects obtained thus; televised programmes, etc. ~(set), apparatus for displaying pictures transmitted thus." The meaning given to the expression "tel ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... 1st September, 1976. We may also add that these two cases are some sort of solitary cases. Actually the television was introduced in this State in the year 1977 only and all sales of televisions or their parts and accessories would take place only after 1st September, 1976. These cases arose because the dealer herein is a manufacturer of accessories and parts of television which he was selling t ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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