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Collection of tax at source — Scope of S. 206C — Sale of liquor and scrap — Meaning of scrap — Company owned by State Government having monopoly over sale of liquor in state — Licence granted to bar owners for sale of liquor and collection of empty liquor bottles — Empty liquor bottles not scrap within meaning of S. 206C — Assessee not taxable on income from sale of empty liquor bottles.

By K B Bhujle | Ritu Punjabi, Advocates
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23 Tamil Nadu State Marketing Corporation Ltd. vs. DY. CIT(TDS)

[2024] 463 ITR 487 (Mad)

A.Ys.: 2016–17 to 2023–24

Date of order: 22nd December, 2023

S. 206C of the ITA 1961

Collection of tax at source — Scope of S. 206C — Sale of liquor and scrap — Meaning of scrap — Company owned by State Government having monopoly over sale of liquor in state — Licence granted to bar owners for sale of liquor and collection of empty liquor bottles — Empty liquor bottles not scrap within meaning of S. 206C — Assessee not taxable on income from sale of empty liquor bottles.

The assessee-company was wholly owned by the Government of Tamil Nadu. It was a statutory body which had been vested with the special and exclusive privilege of effecting wholesale supply of Indian-made foreign spirits in the entire State of Tamil Nadu under section 17C(1A)(a) of the Tamil Nadu Pr

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