Income-Tax Officer vs K. S. Lokhandwala on 22 September, 1989
5.5 Regarding the contention of the learned D.R. that the amount of sales tax for the last quarter was rightly disallowed in view of Supreme Court judgments in the case of Chowringhee Sales Bureau (P) Ltd. (supra) and Sinclair Murray & Co. (P) Ltd. (supra), it will be sufficient to observe that in both those cases the assessee disputed their liability before the sales tax authorities and they did not deposit the amount of sales tax realised by them in the state exchequer nor refunded the same to the customers. Provisions of Section 43B as discussed before have been introduced only for providing disallowance of such amount of sales tax liability, which is not discharged by the taxpayers or which is not deposited by them for a long time. In the present case the assessee has duly deposited the amount of sales tax of last quarter within the time allowed as per the provisions of Gujarat Sales Tax Act and hence the assessee's case is not covered by the main provisions of Section 43B but the same is apparently covered by the exceptions carved out by the Legislature itself in the first proviso to Section 43B which permits grant of deduction of such sales tax liability provided the same has been deposited before the due date for furnishing the return of income Under Section 139(1).