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M/S. Reckitt Benckiser (India) Ltd vs Commissioner, Commercial Taxes & Ors on 29 April, 2008

In Reckit Benckiser(India) Ltd (Supra), the question that was posed for the scrutiny of the Apex Court was whether mosquito repellants and other items fell under Entry 44(5) of Schedule III to the KVAT. Whereas, the appellant insisted on the aforesaid classification, according to the Revenue, the products were traceable to Entry No.66 which attracted an enhanced rate of duty. Interfering with the decision of the jurisdictional High Court from which the appeal had been preferred to it, the Apex Court underlined that cases where HSN and Code number is indicated against a tariff item mentioned in the Third Schedule of KVAT then, in terms of the Rules of Interpretation one ought to abide by the same as adopted by Customs Tariff Act, 1975 and thus interpret the entries in the said Schedule not only in the light of the entries in the Custom Tariff Act,1975, but also the judgments applicable thereto. Their Lordships observed that KVAT was aligned with the Customs Tariff which, in turn, was in Harmony with HSN and consequently its product in question was required to be viewed in the context of HSN and Code number and the judgmenst based thereon.
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Collector Of Central Excise, Shillong vs Wood Craft Products Ltd on 20 March, 1995

20. That Explanatory Notes to the Harmonized System of Nomenclature (HSN) were not only of persuasive value, but having regard to the fact that the structure of the Central Excise Tariff is based thereon were entitled to greater weightage was underlined by the Apex Court in Collector of Customs, Bombay(Supra) in which it quoted with approval its observations in Collector, Central Excise, Shillong vs. Wood Crafts Products Limited [ 1995(77) E.L.T. 23] as follows :-
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