Conversion of Un-garbled Pepper to garbled Pepper is not manufacture

Nishant Export Vs. ACIT (Kerala High Court) The assessee was engaged in the procurement and export of pepper. The assessee procured un-garbled pepper, which by a process got garbled; making it fit for human consumption and was exported. The assessee had been claiming allowance under Section 80HHC for its export turnover as computed under sub-section (3); when it also had sale in the domestic market. In the relevant assessment year the assessee turned out to be a hundred per cent export-oriented unit, which is one of the conditions for claiming the benefit under Section 10B. The assessee’...