Deputy Commissioner (Ct), Coimbatore ... vs Anamallais Bus Transport (P.) Limited on 4 April, 1991
That apart, we find that this Court has been consistently taking the view following the ratio of the Apex Court in [1973] 31 STC 426 (State of Tamil Nadu v. Burmah Shell Oil Storage and Distributing Co. of India Ltd.), [1982] 49 STC 17 (State of Tamil Nadu v. Binny Ltd.) and [1976] 37 STC 423 (District Controller of Stores, Northern Railway v. Assistant Commercial Taxation Officer) that the transactions of the nature carried on by the respondent/assessee are exigible to sales tax under the provisions of the Tamil Nadu General Sales Tax Act on the reasoning that such assessees are dealers and the transactions in question are in the course of its business or incidental or ancillary to its business.