For AMC, MRI unit is a computer

AHMEDABAD: Twenty-three years after a Magnetic Resonance Imaging System (MRI unit) was once imported to the town by a non-public radiology centre in 1995, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) nonetheless considers it an digital pc and no longer a medical apparatus.
For more than two decades, the civic frame is contesting a case in courts to justify that its levy of 5% octroi duty on the apparatus by treating it as an digital item was once correct. AMC refuses to simply accept it simply as a medical apparatus or sanatorium needful and has not too long ago moved Gujarat prime courtroom towards the order of a civil courtroom which ordered AMC to price octroi at 2% levied on medical apparatus and go back the rest tax charged with 6% interest.

According to case main points, city-based X-Ray House imported Telso Magnatic Resonance Imaging System (MRI) unit at a worth of Rs 3.37 crore in December 1995. AMC levied five% octroi on the apparatus as 'digital pc' and charged Rs 16.86 lakh. The radiology centre endured to oppose the levy of octroi as digital pc and asked AMC to price most effective 2% octroi.

Civic frame approaches prime courtroom

This rate is levied on medical apparatus and for the reason that MRI unit was once for complex non-invasive medical checks to diagnose medical stipulations by generating detailed photos of organs, comfortable tissues, bones and nearly all interior frame structures.


Since AMC refused to simply accept MRI unit as a medical apparatus and to cut back octroi duty, X-Ray House filed a swimsuit in the city civil courtroom and insisted that AMC can acquire 2% octroi duty underneath the tariff item for surgical tools, clinical tools and sanatorium requisites.


It claimed recovery of the 3% difference with interest from AMC. AMC, however, endured to take care of that the MRI unit displays live telecast of the internal part of the frame of a person on a pc screens. Hence, it falls underneath the top of digital computers and cinematography apparatus and prone to be charged with five% octroi duty.


After the hearing, the civil courtroom in 2016 held that the MRI unit is medical instrument for prognosis and it's not an digital pc. Merely because it has a small part of digital instrument, whole system can't be covered underneath the definition of digital instrument.


“Nowadays, digital pc and digital instrument is used as a some of the part in maximum of equipment like auto mobiles, musical tools, cooking tools and so forth, nevertheless it does no longer imply that every system, through which pc or digital instrument is used as a some of the part, may also be construed underneath the definition of the digital pc,” the courtroom said. The courtroom ordered AMC to price octroi duty on the rate of 2% on MRI unit, Rs 6,74; and requested it to go back Rs 10.11 lakh to the birthday party with 6% interest. AMC has approached Gujarat prime courtroom towards his order, which admitted its attraction.
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