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2019 (9) TMI 575 - HC - VAT and Sales TaxSet off of tax paid on purchase of raw materials used in the manufacture of tubular poles - Claim rejected on the reasoning that the assessee had not raised any such claim in its return and, therefore, it was not permissible to grant the same at the stage of assessment - forfeiting the amount of the tax under Section 29-A(2) of the Act - HELD THAT:- To take the benefit of Section 4-BB of the Act, plainly, the assessee was required to make that deduction, at that stage, and not later. Then, looking at the notification no. 2339 dated 22.10.1996, read with notification no. 1223 dated 22.5.1998, under the conditions for grant of benefit of set off, it was clearly stipulated by way of condition no. 3 that it was permissible to the manufacture (of notified goods) to claim such deduction, by way of an option to the payment of full tax on sale of such goods. It was not compulsary for that manufacturer to necessarily avail set off. The reasoning given by the Tribunal apart, it does not appear possible to contemplate a situation where a claim of set off may have been raised by the assessee after it had failed to make a deduction of tax payable on the sale of tubular poles and it had charged full tax @ 4% on sale of tubular poles. Thus, notwithstanding full compliance made by the assessee, in payment of tax on purchase of raw material and charge of tax on sale of tubular pipes, it lost the right to claim the set off under Section 4-BB of the Act upon opting to charge full tax on sale of tubular pipes, instead of deducting the tax paid on purchase of raw material from the tax payable on the sale of tubular pipes. The subsequent events of the timing of the claim raised during assessment proceedings remained inconsequential as the scheme of set off was optional and the assessee must be held to have necessarily opted out of it by choosing to charge full tax on sale of tubular pipes. Revision dismissed.
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