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Kerala HC Declares Kerala Tax on Paper Lotteries Act Unconstitutional - (11 May 2020)

CONSTITUTION

Kerala High Court has declared that the Kerala Tax on Paper Lotteries Act, 2005 is unconstitutional, observing that the Act was lacking legislative competence to impose tax under the impugned Act on state organised lotteries by deriving its source of power from Entry 62 of List II of the Constitution of India, 1949.

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