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🚨 Rajasthan High Court landmark ruling:

‘Pizza’, ‘Sandwich’ is ‘Cooked Food’, 'not Bakery product'; Looks at subsequent legislation

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#VAT #food #Pizza #a2ztaxcorpllp #GSTwithBimalJain

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Rajasthan HC holds sale of ‘pizza’ and ‘sandwiches’ to be ‘cooked foods’, eligible to exemption from payment of VAT in excess of 5% vide notification dated March 09, 2010;

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Perusing Notification and Entry providing for rate of tax @ 14% on goods notified therein, as well as ubsequent amendments to Rate Schedule, HC at the outset clarifies that the sale of ‘pizza’ and ‘sandwich’ would qualify as sale of ‘cooked food’;

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Holds lower authorities i.e. The Additional Commissioner and Tax Board in err for holding that ‘pizza’ and ‘sandwich’ as ‘branded bakery product’ and not ‘food’;

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HC finds that conclusion drawn by lower authorities that these products are not ‘food’ as per the common parlance theory because the general public do not see these items as a substitution to regular meals which include vegetables, chapatti/roti, rice etc,

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is “reached without appreciation of any evidence whatsoever”; Pertinently, observes that the authorities have “reached a perverse conclusion” relying upon “extraneous, unsound, specious, and ill-founded factors” and mentions that, Revenue failed to substantiate its claim;

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Concurs with assessee while citing the settled principle that subsequent legislation can be looked at in order to see what was the proper interpretation to be put upon the earlier legislation when the earlier legislation is found to be obscure or ambiguous;

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Thus, emphasizes on State Government Notification amending Schedule V of the RVAT Act inserting rate of tax 14% on the goods notified therein vide Entry 16 (v) and subsequent amendment in 2015 which includes

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“(v) Cooked food like pizza, burger, fried chicken, French fries, sandwich, hot dog, noodles, potato chips, bakery items and any other cooked food item served or sold including home delivery thereof, under a brand name by any branded chain outlet of cooked food.”

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in the said Entry; Accordingly, answers questions of law in favour of assessee and allows sales tax revision

[Devyani International Ltd. vs. The Additional Commissioner]

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#VAT #food #Pizza #a2ztaxcorpllp #GSTwithBimalJain

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