COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE CHENNAI Vs. HINDUSTAN LEVER LIMITED
LAWS(SC)-2002-4-123
SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
Decided on April 04,2002

COMMISSIONER OF CENTRAL EXCISE Appellant
VERSUS
HINDUSTAN LEVER LTD Respondents

JUDGEMENT

- (1.)The appeals are pressed by the Revenue only insofar as they relate to quantity discount and free units.
(2.)Quantity discount, to put it simply, works thus: a dealer receives from the assessee a stated extra quantity if he buys a certain other quantity. That this will happen is known and agreed at the time the transaction is entered into. It is, therefore, a trade discount and the authorities below have correctly allowed it as such.
(3.)Insofar as free units are concerned, it seems to us that the factual position needs to be ascertained.


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