Breif Issue :

Facts & Issue Involved:

To determine the place of supply of goods, what is relevant is that the movement of goods should be occasioned by the transaction of supply, as evident from the words “where the supply involves movement of goods”. It is in such circumstances that the location of supply would be the location of the goods, at the time at which the movement of goods terminates for delivery to the recipient. What is discernible is that, we repeat, the transaction of supply itself, should occasion the movement of the goods. Then the location of the supply would be fixed as the place where the goods are delivered, so as to apply Section 7 or Section 8.       

A transaction which terminates with the supply within a State is an intra-State supply. However, when a dealer or manufacturer within the State of Kerala purchases goods for the purpose of further sale or manufacture within the State of Kerala, from an outside State dealer and transports it to their manufacturing unit or dealership, then the transaction occasions the movement of goods. Though the sale occurs in that outside State, the place of supply of goods is in this State since the transaction of sale occasions the movement of goods from one State to another and the supply is terminated in this State; whether the movement is by the supplier or the recipient himself. But, when a person residing in one State goes to another State and purchase goods for his own use, the supply with respect to the transaction terminates on the individual taking possession of the goods in that other State. The movement of the goods, after such sale is terminated and delivery is effected, whether it be inside the State or to outside that State, would be the prerogative of the purchaser, who owns the goods, in whom the property in such goods vests and such movement would not be that occasioned by the sale transaction or the supply thereon.