Act Number: 74

Act Name: The Central Sales Tax Act, 1956

Year: 1956

Enactment Date: 1956-10-21

Long Title: An Act to formulate principles for determining when a sale or purchase of goods takes place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce or outside a State or in the course of import into or export from India, to provide for the levy, collection and distribution of taxes on sales of goods in the course of inter-State trade or commerce and to declare certain goods to be of special importance in inter-State trade or commerce and specify the restrictions and conditions to which State laws imposing taxes on the sale or purchase of such goods of special importance shall be subject.

Ministry: Ministry of Finance

Department: Department of Revenue

Section 4: When is a sale or purchase of goods said to take place outside a State.
    (1) Subject to the provisions contained in section 3, when a sale or purchase of goods is determined in accordance with sub-section (2) to take place inside a State, such sale or purchase shall be deemed to have taken place outside all other States.
     (2) A sale or purchase of goods shall be deemed to take place inside a State, if the goods are within the State--
         (a) in the case of specific or ascertained goods, at the time the contract of sale is made; and
         (b) in the case of unascertained or future goods, at the time of their appropriation to the contract of sale by the seller or by the buyer, whether assent of the other party is prior or subsequent to such appropriation
         Explanation.--Where there is a single contract of sale or purchase of goods situated at more places than one, the provisions of this sub-section shall apply as if there were separate contracts in respect of the goods at each of such places.
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