7. After having gone through the above undisputed facts on record, we
are of the considered view that manufacture and clearances made by the
said four units availing the benefit of Notification No. 8/2003-CE have to be
clubbed together as we hold that these units are one and the same, when
their operations are under common management/family members and
financial control and have mutuality of financial interest with each other.
When it is so, then we agree with the findings of the impugned orders. We
also find that the Hon'ble Supreme Court's decision in the case of Calcutta
Chromotype Ltd. v. C.C.E., Calcutta - 1998 (99) E.L.T. 202 (S.C.) had
observed that depending upon the facts and circumstances of the case, veil
of the company has to be lifted to find the real facts. In the present case
also, all the four units, whatever is their constitution, (these are proprietary
concerns), are under common management and closely controlled by
relative persons. The facts and circumstances have warranted to examine
the reality of these units; and after going behind the mask of these entities,
it has been revealed that activities of these units i.e. manufacture,
In M/s.Mcdowel and Company Ltd. v. Commercial Tax Officer
[(1985) 3 SCC 230 = (1985) 154 ITR 148], this Court examined the
concept of tax avoidance or rather the legitimacy of the art of dodging
tax without breaking the law.