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Issues: Whether the grant of exemption under section 8-A of the Karnataka Sales Tax Act, 1957 during the assessment year extinguished the dealer's liability to tax under the composition scheme for the remaining period of that year.
Analysis: The composition under section 17(6)(i) is granted on a yearly basis, but the tax charge itself continues only so long as the charging provision remains in force. An exemption issued under section 8-A operates to take the assessee out of the charging provision. Once the exemption becomes effective, the liability to tax ceases from that date, and the annual nature of composition does not preserve a tax burden for the exempt period. The assessment made for the period after the exemption was therefore unsustainable.
Conclusion: The exemption under section 8-A relieved the assessee from tax liability from the date of exemption, and the assessment order was rightly quashed in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The assessee succeeded, and the matter was remitted for fresh assessment in accordance with the interpretation that exemption under the Act s the tax charge from its effective date.
Ratio Decidendi: An exemption granted under the charging provision removes the assessee from tax liability prospectively from the date it becomes effective, even where the assessee is under an annual composition scheme.
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