LAWS(MAD)-2010-1-670

MADRAS REFINERIES LTD. Vs. ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER AND ORS.

Decided On January 22, 2010
MADRAS REFINERIES LTD. Appellant
V/S
Assistant Commissioner And Ors. Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The dispute relating to the taxability of the transaction regarding import of crude oil and the related loan transactions by a public sector organization as per the directions of the Oil Co-ordination Committee is the issue involved in this writ petition.

(2.) W. P. No. 9356 of 1998 is directed against the proceedings of the Assistant Commissioner, Central Assessment Circle IV, Chennai, in CST 2087/92-93 dated March 30, 1998, levying sales tax on the loan transaction involving the petitioner-company and the other oil companies. Since the very assessment order impugned in this writ petition has been set aside subsequently by remitting the matter to the original authority, the said writ petition has become infructuous. Therefore, it is the substantive writ petition in W. P. No. 9357 of 1998 which alone survives for adjudication.

(3.) The petitioner seeks a writ of prohibition to prohibit the first respondent from imposing sales tax in respect of loan transactions effected by it on the basis of the instructions of the Oil Co-ordination Committee constituted by the Government of India.