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The Constitution of India

§286Restrictions as to imposition of tax on the sale or purchase of goods

(1) No law of a State shall impose, or authorise the imposition of, a tax on [the supply of goods or of services or both, where such supply takes place]— (a) outside the State; or (b) in the course of the import of the [goods or services or both]into, or export of the [goods or services or both]out of, the territory of India. * * * * * [(2) Parliament may by law formulate principles for determining when a [supply of goods or of services or both]in any of the ways mentioned in clause (1).] The words ―or Rajpramukh‖ omitted by the Constitution (Seventh Amendment) Act, 1956, s. * * * * *

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Official India Code text: The Constitution of India [As on 9th December, 2020], English PDF (bitstream 123456789/16124/1/the_constitution_of_india.pdf, 2,712,149 bytes) fetched directly from indiacode.nic.in (Akamai edge, DNS via dns.google) on 2026-07-16. Extracted via pdftotext 26.07 -bbox and @nexlex/ingest inline parser. Articles only — Schedules excluded from this pass. Consolidation as on 2020-12-09 (105th/106th Amendments not yet incorporated — refresh when a newer official English consolidation is sourced). Automated parse; footnotes/amendment history excluded; spot-verified; full clause-level proofread pending.

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