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- 2022 (1) TMI 806 - MADRAS HIGH COURT
Input tax credit - Validity of assessment order - sale of goods without payment of tax on the strength of which the purchasing dealers availed Input Tax Credit under Section 19 of the Tamil Nadu Value Added Tax Act, 2006 - HELD THAT:- It is noticed that the Principal Secretary/Commissioner of Commercial Taxes has issued the Circular No.05 of 2021, LW10/12521/2016 dated 24.02.2021. It has spelt out the manner in which the issue has to be addressed and the Input Tax Credit availed has to be reconciled on the strength of the information gathered from the website of the Government. Admittedly, in this case the respondent has not followed the procedure prescribed therein. Considering the same, the impugned Assessment Order is quashed by remitting back the case to the respondent to pass a speaking order in terms of the above-said circular/guidelines of the Principal Secretary/Commissioner of Commercial Taxes - petition allowed by way of remand.
- 2022 (1) TMI 664 - MADRAS HIGH COURT
Principles of natural justice - petitioner was not given reasonable opportunity to show cause before the impugned orders were made - alleged mismatch qua ITC (Input Tax Credit) - non-verification of dealer at the other end by Assessing Officer-respondent - HELD THAT:- This Court having set out the reasons for not acceding to the prayer of the writ petitioner now sets out infra the conclusion and that is the captioned writ petition fails. It is made clear that if the writ petitioner chooses to file statutory appeal under Section 51 of TNVAT Act, it will be open to the Appellate Authority to consider the same (subject to limitation and subject to pre-deposit condition, if any) on its own merits and in accordance with law uninfluenced by any observation made in this order. Petition dismissed.
- 2022 (1) TMI 663 - MADRAS HIGH COURT
Recovery of dues - Attachment of Bank Accounts - petitioner neither charged Value Added Tax nor remitted the tax on the sales effected under the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Value Added Tax Act, 2006 - Section 22(6) of the TNVAT Act, 2006 - HELD THAT:- Though the petitioner has been both negligent in neither filing the returns nor by filing reply to the notices which preceded passing of the first mentioned impugned order dated 28.10.2016 of the first respondent and failed to answer the subsequent notices issued by the first respondent asking the petitioner to pay the arrears of tax, the facts on record also indicates that the petitioner had filed a petition under Section 22(6) of the TNVAT Act, 2006 for revision of the order dated 28.09.2016 in time. Since the petition has not been disposed, the impugned recovery cannot be proceeded immed....... + More
- 2022 (1) TMI 614 - MADRAS HIGH COURT
Validity of assessment order - copies of documents relied upon by the respondent/Appellate Authority was not furnished despite a specific request, by the appellant - violation of principles of natural justice - HELD THAT:- The grievance of the appellant that failure to furnish the documents relied upon would result in violation of natural justice is well-founded. It has been consistently held that whenever an assessment is made on the basis of certain documents and if a request is made by the assessee, it is incumbent on the Assessing Officer to furnish such copies to enable the assessee to respond to the allegations. The order of assessment dated 28.08.2014 is set aside and the respondent is directed to communicate to the appellant the list of documents available and furnish the copies of such documents which form the basis / relied upon in the order of assessment, at the cost of the appellant - appeal disposed off.
- 2022 (1) TMI 613 - MADRAS HIGH COURT
Validity of Assessment order - Non-furnishing of necessary documents as sought by petitioner - HELD THAT:- By seeking certain documents, without ascertaining the availability or non-availability of such documents, an assessee cannot be permitted to prolong and protract the issues with reference to the Assessment Orders. In this regard, seeking certain clarifications of documents in a calculated manner, there is a possibility of collusion. In such circumstances, all these aspects cannot be gone into by this Court in writ proceedings. However, the fact remains that the petitioner has received four documents, pursuant to the orders of this Court and the said facts are admitted by the petitioner. Thus, certain documents were already furnished and the petitioner is of an opinion that some other documents are also required for the purpose of su....... + More
- 2022 (1) TMI 561 - GAUHATI HIGH COURT
Levy of Assam VAT - Nature of activity - sale or service or both - denting and painting job on a vehicle - levy of VAT on paints by treating the nature of works as works contract - transfer of property in paints during the restoration and reconditioning work or not - HELD THAT:- If a new vehicle is considered, a vehicle is made of thousands of components, each having its unique character. Nonetheless, though a vehicle is a composition of numerous unique components, it is impermissible for the taxing authority to tax individual item of the vehicle. Similarly, in the composite work of denting and painting contract, the combination would be a composite contract of labour and service and as in the present case, the petitioner is liable for and is paying service tax as imposed on the work of denting and painting, being a service provided by a ....... + More
- 2022 (1) TMI 560 - MADRAS HIGH COURT
Validity of assessment order - input tax credit - failure to disclose the turnover in the return on the part of supplier - opportunity of personal hearing - case remitted back to the Assessing Officer to re-do the assessment once again after giving an opportunity of hearing to the petitioner - HELD THAT:- It is noticed that Principal Secretary / Commissioner of Commercial Taxes has now issued the Circular No.5/2021, dated 24.02.2021. Ultimately, the purpose of remanding the case back to the respondent was to pass appropriate orders after ascertaining whether the petitioner was indeed entitled to Input Tax Credit or whether the respondent was justified in demanding the tax. There cannot be any embargo on the respondent from passing orders even though the time specified had lapsed and merely because the respondent either failed to approach ....... + More
- 2022 (1) TMI 559 - MADRAS HIGH COURT
Revision of assessment order - tax on inter-state sales transactions - denial of benefit of concession under Section 3 of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 - C Forms were lost - petitioner had filed the xerox/photo copies of C-forms - Section 84 of the TNVAT Act, 2006 - HELD THAT:- As far as the production of C Forms is concerned, Rule 12 of the Central Sales Tax (Registration and Turnover) Rules, 1957 makes it very clear that it is for the petitioner to approach the selling dealer and obtain appropriate Forms from the Sales Tax Department from the other states. It is not open for the petitioner to shift the burden on the Assessing Officer to verify from the data from the website of the Sales Tax Department from the supplier's end. To that extent, there is no merits in the present writ petition. The petitioner is bound to obtain certifi....... + More
- 2022 (1) TMI 504 - MADRAS HIGH COURT
Validity of assessment order - input tax credit - mismatch in Returns filed by the dealers and information captured by the department - opportunity for personal hearing not provided - violation of the natural justice - HELD THAT:- Though the petitioner failed to come and collect the document after notice was issued to the petitioner on 05.08.2021 for the assessment year 2009-2010 and on 29.07.2021 for the assessment year 2014- 15, it was incumbent on the part of the respondent to call upon the petitioner to come for a personal hearing before passing the impugned orders. That apart, the petitioner had already filed W.P.Nos.18107 and 18109 of 2017 before this Court wherein the respective pre-assessment notices issued to the petitioner dated 05.08.2021 and 29.07.2021 were challenged. Since the impugned orders have been passed without calling....... + More
- 2022 (1) TMI 446 - GUJARAT HIGH COURT
Seeking restoration of cancelled registration of petitioner - blocking of input tax credit - except the show-cause notice, nothing else was furnished or nothing was attached to such show-cause notice. - HELD THAT:- The whole object of issuing a show-cause notice is to make the recipient of the notice understand what the authority is trying to convey and what are the nature of the allegations. In the case on hand, when there are allegations of bogus billing, it was expected of the authority to at least furnish some information about such bogus billing. At this stage, Mr. Sharma submitted that along with the show-cause notice, there is always few documents attached which would indicate what the authority wants to convey about the bogus billing. It has been stated on oath not only in the memorandum of the writ application but even in the rep....... + More
- 2022 (1) TMI 445 - KARNATAKA HIGH COURT
Levy of penalty under Section 53(12) of Karnataka Value Added Tax Act, 2003 for breach of Section 53(2) of the Act - transporter has carried the scrap of Copper, Aluminium and Brass in vehicle bearing No. HR-61-A-4041 which was alleged to be robbed and the police had found the same in vehicle Nos.KA-05-AC-7002 and KA-13-8671 before a godown at Madanayakanahalli, Bengaluru, intercepted the vehicle - HELD THAT:- The appellate authority came to a conclusion that the original documents tendered at the HRCP (in), Attibele, which is the border entry check post of Karnataka were not traceable on account of theft and since the enforcement authority had only an access to verify the duplicate set of documents, could not have arrived at a conclusion that the consignor M/s Bhagawathi Enterprises is from Salem, Tamil Nadu, and the Cosignee being at Ne....... + More
- 2022 (1) TMI 444 - KARNATAKA HIGH COURT
Validity of re-assessment order - denial of input tax credit claimed on the basis of tax invoices issued by such selling dealers, who did not furnish tax compliance - burden of prove - fake/bogus transaction - HELD THAT:- The burden of proof certainly lies on the appellant -assessee to prove the transaction whether is genuine or not. Merely for the reason that the selling dealers have not filed the return and failed to discharge the tax liability by remitting the tax collected, could not be a ground to disallow the input tax credit claimed by the assessee unless such transaction is found to be not genuine and is a fictitious document/invoice created to claim input tax credit i.e., a bogus transaction. In the absence of such analysis made by the authorities, merely for the reasons as aforesaid, input tax credit could not be denied. It is a....... + More
- 2022 (1) TMI 443 - KARNATAKA HIGH COURT
Levy of Entertainment tax - Valuation - consideration towards the services excluding the service tax component or on both - entertainment tax can be levied on the transaction of service which is so characterized under the Finance Act, 1994 or not? - legislative competence of State of Karnataka to levy tax under KET Act, 1958 on the transaction which is exclusively reserve for Union Parliament for the purposes of service tax under Entry 92C of the List I of Schedule VII of the Constitution of India - prohibition under constitutional discipline of Article 246 to adopt the sources of revenue which are exclusive received for the Union Parliament - applicability of judgement of ANAND SWARUP MAHESH KUMAR VERSUS THE COMMISSIONER OF SALES TAX [1980 (9) TMI 238 - SUPREME COURT] - validity to proceed with the appeals while the question of legislati....... + More
- 2022 (1) TMI 442 - KARNATAKA HIGH COURT
Levy of CST - inter-state sales effected without C-Form declarations - amount claimed as deduction by the petitioner to be in the nature of discount requiring compliance of Rule 3(2)(c) of the Karnataka Value Added Tax Rules, 2005 or not - levy of CST on the notional value adopted in compliance of Central Excise Valuation (Determination of Price of Excisable Goods) Rules, 2000 - HELD THAT:- It is not in dispute that the tax invoices were raised by the petitioner and subsequently credit notes were issued, whereby in the credit note, value is shown as ₹ 3/-, whereas ₹ 6/- is shown in the invoice. The authorities referring to Rule 3(2)(c) of the Rules and Section 30 of the Act as it stood during the relevant period proceeded to reject the claim of the assessee i.e., the value of goods sold to any related parties in terms of Rule ....... + More
- 2022 (1) TMI 441 - MADRAS HIGH COURT
Erroneous exercise of Jurisdiction - issue raised in these writ petitions is that the Assessing Officer has erroneously applied the provisions of the TNVAT Act and passed the assessment orders which resulted exercise of jurisdiction erroneously - violation of principles of natural justice - HELD THAT:- Jurisdictional error should not result in exoneration of liability. Jurisdictional error, if any committed, is technical, and thus, rectifiable. In such circumstances, the Courts are expected to quash the order passed by an incompetent authority and remand the matter back for fresh adjudication. Contrarily, if an assessee is exonerated from liability, undoubtedly, the purpose and object of the Act is defeated. The growing practice in the High Court is to file writ petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution of India without exhausting t....... + More
- 2022 (1) TMI 389 - GUJARAT HIGH COURT
Defreezing of current bank accounts - Entry No.58 A of the Schedule II of the VAT Act - HELD THAT:- Noticing the fact that the petitioner is already before the statutory authority filing two Revision Application Nos.54 & 55 of 2021, let the same be decided within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order. In the event of the petitioner making a request of defreezing the Bank Accounts and the authority acceding to such request, the final adjudication also can come thereafter within a period of eight weeks. The present petition stands disposed off.
- 2022 (1) TMI 388 - MADRAS HIGH COURT
Principles of natural justice - opportunity of hearing was provided or not - petitioner by a letter requested the respondent to give further time for personal hearing - HELD THAT:- Considering the fact that the order has been passed without hearing the petitioner in respect of the issue which has been pending considerably for a long period of time, the respondent should have awaited and given an opportunity to the petitioner to appear and make submissions. The case is remitted back to the respondent to pass a fresh order by 17.01.2022. The petitioner is therefore directed to appear before the respondent for a personal hearing on 23.12.2021 at 11.30 AM. - Petition allowed by way of remand.
- 2022 (1) TMI 387 - KARNATAKA HIGH COURT
Classification of goods - Whip Topping - taxable under the residuary provision when Sl. No.4 of the Notification dated 30.04.2005 or not - industrial inputs or not - HELD THAT:- It is discernable that in identical circumstances in the assessee's own case in STA No.118/2013 and allied matters referred to above, the coordinate bench of this Court having considered the applicability of the clarification issued by the Commissioner, has set aside the order of the Tribunal as to whether it is prospective or retrospective in nature and restored the matter to the file of the assessing authority to examine this aspect keeping open the rights and contentions of the parties. The matter is restored to the file of the assessing authority for examining the matter - revision petition is allowed in part.
- 2022 (1) TMI 386 - MADRAS HIGH COURT
Validity of assessment order - Tamil Nadu Value Added Tax Act, 2006 - HELD THAT:- The issue decided in the case of M/S. ALL INDIA METAL AND ALLOYS VERSUS THE ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER HARBOUR-IV ASSESSMENT CIRCLE CHENNAI. [2021 (9) TMI 1144 - MADRAS HIGH COURT] were it was held that there have been gross violation of principles of natural justice, which would justify that the Appellant is entitled to invoke the extraordinary jurisdiction of this Court. The matter is remitted to the Assessing Officer and the Assessing Officer is directed to issue notice to the Appellant to appear in-person - Petition allowed by way of remand.
- 2022 (1) TMI 312 - SUPREME COURT
Levy of excise duty on the liquor destroyed in fire - Demand raised against the writ petitioner company (respondent herein) towards loss of excise revenue because of destruction of liquor in fire - fire incident that took place in a godown of the distillery of the respondent company - whether demand of excise duty on the liquor lost in fire is authorised by law and has rightly been raised as per the applicable provisions of the Act of 1910, the Excise Manual and the Rules of 1969? - HELD THAT:- A comprehensive look at the relevant provisions of law makes it clear that so far as IMFL is concerned, no provision is made in the Excise Manual for any wastage allowance in relation to the bottled sprit, but, in terms of Rule 7(11) of the Rules of 1969, an allowance up to 1% on the total quantity of spirit stored during a month may be allowed for....... + More
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