2026-VIL-694-KER
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Kerala Value Added Tax Act, 2003 - Classification of Goods as Timber or Firewood - The assessee sold goods which were classified as firewood during the relevant period. The Petitioner contended that these goods should have been classified as timber for taxation purposes - Whether goods sold as firewood which were remnants from the process of timber cutting should be reclassified as timber - HELD - The goods were correctly classified as firewood and not as timber. The assessee explained that when customers bring timber for sawing they usually will not take the remance of woods which will be dropped back in the assessee's premises and such fire woods have been collected together and sold during the end of the year. This explanation was found correct and reasonable especially since there was no suppression detected by any of the authorities. The articles in question are the vestiges of the process of timber cutting which are not taken by the customers and hence disposed of as fire wood and not as timber - The revision petition is dismissed - Inclusion of Vehicle Running Expenses in Taxable Turnover - Assessee claimed certain amounts as expenses incurred for maintenance of lorry and vehicle running expenses. The Revenue sought to include this amount as part of the sales turnover - Whether expenses for maintenance of lorry and vehicle running needs to be assessed as part of the taxable turnover - HELD - Both the lower authorities admitted that the amount shown was an expense. There was no case for the lower authorities that there was sales suppression or any quantity difference. The assessing authority had detected the expenses from the books of accounts of the assessee - The Assessing Officer accepted the vehicle running expenses as expenses and a case to the contrary had not been even attempted to be proved through any other document or input - The revision petition is dismissed
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