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Section 30 in The Central Excise Act, 1944 [Entire Act]
Section 3 in The Central Excise Act, 1944 [Entire Act]
The Central Excise Act, 1944
A. K. Roy & Anr vs Voltas Limited on 1 December, 1972
Explanation :- In this clause 'holding company',
'subsidiary company' and 'relative' have the same
meanings as in the Companies Act, 1956 (1 of 1956)."
Learned counsel for the assessees contends that the
provisions regarding related persons are wholly unnecessary
because to counter-act evasion or avoidance any artificially
arranged price between the manufacturer and his wholesale
buyer can be rejected in any case under s. 4, and we are
referred to the observations of this Court in Voltas Limited
(supra) and Atic Industries Ltd. (supra). It is true, we
think, that the new s. 4 (1) contains inherently within it
the power to determine the true value of the excisable
article, after taking into account any concession shown to a
special or favoured buyer because of extra-commercial
considerations, in order that the price be ascertained only
on the basis that it is a transaction at arms length. That
requirement is emphasised by the provision in the new s. 4
(1) (a) that the price should be the sole consideration for
the sale. In every
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such case, it will be for the Revenue to determine on the
evidence before it whether the transaction is one where
extra-commercial considerations have entered and, if so,
what should be the price to be taken as the value of the
excisable article for the purpose of excise duty.
Nonetheless, it was open to Parliament to incorporate
provisions in the section declaring that certain specified
categories of transactions fall within the tainted class, in
which case an irrebuttable presumption will arise that
transactions belonging to those categories are transactions
which cannot be dealt with under the usual meaning of the
expression "normal price" set forth in the new s. 4 (1) (a).
They are cases where it will not be necessary for the
Revenue to examine the entire gamut of evidence in order to
determine whether the transaction is one prompted by extra-
commercial considerations.
R. R. Engineering Co vs Zila Parishad, Bareilly & Anr on 10 March, 1980
The case was referred to by a Constitution Bench of this
Court in R.R. Engineering Co. v. Zila Parishad, Bareilly &
Anr., where the relationship was succinctly described thus:-
The Hingir-Rampur Coal Co., Ltd. And ... vs The State Of Orissa And Others on 21 November, 1960
The principle was reaffirmed by this Court in The Hingir-
Rampur Coal Co., Ltd. and Others v. The State of Orissa and
Others where the form in which the levy was imposed was held
to be and impermissible test for defining in itself the
character of the levy. It was observed:-
The Vacuum Oil Company vs The Secretary Of State For India on 21 April, 1932
At first blush, it
would seem that the former construction should be accepted,
and indeed some support can be derived for that view from
the observations of the Privy Council in Vacuum Oil Co.
(supra), where the "wholesale cash price" mentioned in s.30
Ford Motor Company Of India Limited vs The Secretary Of State For India on 4 October, 1935
(a) of the Sea Customs Act, 1878, was construed to mean
"that price current for staple articles. the amount of
which, if not a subject of daily publication in the press,
is easily ascertainable in appropriate trade circles". But
this general observation can be of no help to the assessees,
because since then, he courts have proceeded to make the
position amply clear. The problem presented itself again to
the Privy Council in Ford Motor Co. of India Ltd. (supra),
and while taking note of what it had said in the earlier
case, the Privy Council laid down that where the excisable
goods constituted a class of their own and it was not
possible to say that other manufacturers produced goods of
that kind and quality, the goods under assessment could be
considered as members of their own class for the purpose of
s.30 (a) even although at the time and place of importation
there were no other members. The price obtained for them, it
was said, would correctly represent the price obtainable for
goods of the like kind and quality at the time and place of
importation.