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A recent Supreme Court judgment offers a crucial lesson on the "manufacture" definition.
The court emphasized that simply adding value is not enough. The key is a "transformation test" combined with a "marketability test".
It distinguished between "parts" and "accessories," ruling that integrating integral components into a product to give it a new character, identity, and functional utility amounts to "manufacture." This ruling has significant implications for manufacturing and tax law.
Statutes and Laws:
* Central Excise Act, 1944: Section 2(f), Section 3
* Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985
A recent Supreme Court judgment offers a crucial lesson on the "manufacture" definition.
The court emphasized that simply adding value is not enough. The key is a "transformation test" combined with a "marketability test".
It distinguished between "parts" and "accessories," ruling that integrating integral components into a product to give it a new character, identity, and functional utility amounts to "manufacture." This ruling has significant implications for manufacturing and tax law.
Statutes and Laws:
* Central Excise Act, 1944: Section 2(f), Section 3
* Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985