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Issues: Whether a refund claim was maintainable when the classification order had not been challenged in appeal and whether payment under protest could displace the finality of the classification order.
Analysis: The classification approved by the department had not been appealed against and therefore had attained finality. An assessee aggrieved by such an order was required to pursue the statutory appeal remedy. The governing principle is that an order remains operative until set aside by a competent appellate forum. Payment under protest may bear upon limitation for refund, but it does not render the underlying classification order non-operative or void. In these circumstances, the refund claim could not be entertained merely because the assessee later relied on a different classification view.
Conclusion: The refund claim was not maintainable and the objection based on payment under protest was rejected.
Final Conclusion: The appeal failed because the unchallenged classification order had become final, and the refund application could not be used to reopen that determination.
Ratio Decidendi: A party that does not challenge an appealable classification order cannot subsequently seek refund on the ground that the classification was wrong; payment under protest does not by itself unsettle the finality of the order.
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