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Issues: Whether the West Bengal Taxation Tribunal had jurisdiction to entertain an application relating exclusively to assessment and demand under the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956, and whether such matter stood transferred to the Tribunal under the West Bengal Taxation Tribunal Act, 1987.
Analysis: The statutory scheme of section 9(2) and section 9(2A) of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956, was held to use the machinery of the State sales tax law only for assessment, collection and enforcement. The words "as if" were treated as creating a limited legal fiction for recovery purposes and not as converting the Central sales tax levy into a State tax. The Tribunal further held that its jurisdiction under articles 323B and 246 of the Constitution and sections 5, 6 and 15(1) of the West Bengal Taxation Tribunal Act, 1987, extends only to tax matters under a "specified State Act". Since the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956, is not a specified State Act, an application exclusively concerning liability under that Act falls outside the Tribunal's authority, though Central Act provisions may incidentally arise in proceedings under the Bengal Finance (Sales Tax) Act, 1941.
Conclusion: The Tribunal had no jurisdiction to entertain or decide the application, and the matter was directed to be returned to the High Court.
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