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TDS not to be deducted on contracts for the supply of corrugated boxes with printed labels
June, 21st 2006
CIT vs Dabur India Ltd.
Citation 198 CTR 375
  Topic TDS u/s 194C
  Sub Topic Supply of printed boxes
  Summary

No liability for tax deduction at source under s.194C of the Income Tax Act 1961 arose where the assessee's business was supply of corrugated packaging boxes with printed labels; the nature of the business was sale of boxes and not work contract.

 

High Court of Delhi

Commissioner of Income Tax vs. Dabur India Ltd.

IT Appeal No. 354 of 2005

T.S. Thakur and Badar Durrez Ahmed, JJ.

25 August 2005

Ms. Prem Lata Bansal with S.C. Sharma, for the Petitioner
None, for the Respondent

JUDGMENTBY THE COURT:

In State of Himachal Pradesh vs. Associated Hotels of India Ltd. (1972) 29 STC 474 (SC) the Supreme Court declared that if the main object underlying the contract is to transfer property in or deliver the possession of a chattel as chattel, then the contract is one of sale. The test, observed their Lordships, is whether or not the work and labour bestowed end in anything that can properly become the subject of a sale. Neither the ownership of the materials nor the value of the skill and labour, as compared with the value of the materials is conclusive, although such matters may be taken into consideration in determining whether the contract is in substance one for work and labour or one for the sale of chattel.

2. Relying upon the above decision, the Tribunal of Pune Bench in Wadilal Dairy International Ltd. vs. Asstt. CIT (2001) 70 TTJ (Pune) 77 : (2001) 118 Taxman 141 (Pune)(Mag) held that buying packing material was tantamount to purchasing goods for the purpose of packing and that just because some printing was required to be done by the supplier on such good was of no consequence.

3. In the instant case also the supply of corrugated boxes was to be made with some labels printed on the same. The question that was raised before the Tribunal, therefore, was whether the supply of such boxes was a contract for sale of chattel and as such outside the purview of s. 194C of the IT Act, 1961. The Tribunal has, relying upon the decision of the Supreme Court in Associated Hotels (supra) and the order passed by the Pune Bench of the Tribunal in Wadilal Dairy referred to above, held that the dominant, object .underlying the contract in the instant case was the supply of goods in the form of corrugated boxes. It has accordingly, set aside the order passed by the CIT(a) and the consequent demand raised against the assessee under ss. 201(1) and 20(1A).

4. Ms. Bansal, .counsel for the Revenue, finds fault with the., view taken by the Tribunal. Relying upon the decision of the Supreme court in the case. of state of Tamil Nadu vs. Anandam Viswanathan (1989) 73 STC 1 (SC), she submits that the very fact that some labour was added which requires skill was sufficient to take the contract out from the category of a simple contract for supply of goods.

5. We have carefully gone through the decision relied upon by the counsel but find it difficult to accept the submission made by her. In the case of Anandam Viswanathan (supra) the work entrusted to the assessee was printing of question papers for universities. The question was whether such printing work could be treated to be a simple case of contract for sale of goods. Answering the question in the negative, the Court held that printing of question papers at the behest of a university or educational institution is; a delicate and confidential type of work and the price paid for supplying such printed question papers or printed matter entails primarily the confidence and secondly the skill and to a very small extent the material. Hence, such work undertaken by the concerned agency could not be categorised as entailing sale of goods. It was instead a contract for works done. There is no similarity between the facts with which the Supreme Court was dealing in Viswanathan's case (supra) and those in the present case. It is nobody's case before us that the printing of the labels on the corrugated boxes required any special skill or involved any confidence or secrecy. In the circumstances, the Tribunal was justified in holding that the predominant object underlying the contract was one for sale of goods which took the contract out of the purview of s. 194C of the Act.

No substantial question of law arises for consideration.

Dismissed.

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