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Issues: Whether, under the Tamil Nadu Sales Tax (Settlement of Disputes) Act, 2002, excess tax paid before filing the settlement application could be adjusted towards the shortfall in penalty, and whether the impugned notice proposing rejection of the settlement application was sustainable.
Analysis: Section 6(1) requires the designated authority to determine the payable amount in accordance with section 7, and the first proviso mandates that any amount of tax, penalty, or interest already paid before the application be taken into account and deducted from the amount so determined. On that construction, prepayments are not confined to the head under which they were originally paid, but must be given credit against the sum found payable under the settlement scheme. The earlier declaration striking down section 6(4) as violative of article 14 also supported the view that excess payment does not cease to belong to the applicant and that such excess may be refunded or adjusted against any shortfall in tax, penalty, or interest.
Conclusion: The excess tax paid by the applicant had to be adjusted towards the penalty shortfall, and the notice proposing rejection of the settlement application was unsustainable.
Ratio Decidendi: Under section 6(1) of the Settlement of Disputes Act, prepayments of tax, penalty, or interest must be credited against the amount determined, and excess payment may be adjusted towards any statutory liability found payable under the scheme.
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