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Issues: Whether an assessee, having filed an appeal against an assessment order, may seek leave to raise additional grounds challenging the tax determination in the same pending appeal, and whether such an can be treated as a separate appeal barred by limitation.
Analysis: The appellate power under section 55 of the Bombay Sales Tax Act, 1959 is wide and extends to the entire order appealed against. The subject-matter of the appeal is the assessment order as a whole, even if the memorandum of appeal originally challenges only some parts of it. An application for additional grounds in a pending appeal is not a fresh appeal against a part of the same order; it is a request to enlarge the grounds in the existing appeal. The appellate authority therefore has jurisdiction to consider such an application on its merits, and the question of treating it as a separate time-barred appeal does not arise.
Conclusion: The assessee was entitled to move the appellate authority for permission to raise additional grounds, and the appellate authority had to decide that request on merits. The rejection of the application as a separate appeal barred by limitation was unsustainable.
Final Conclusion: The reference was answered in favour of the assessee, and the challenge to the tax determination could be pursued by way of additional grounds in the pending appeal.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the statute provides a single appeal against an assessment order, an application to raise additional grounds in that pending appeal is not a separate appeal but part of the original appellate proceedings, and it must be considered on its merits within the appellate authority's plenary powers.
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