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Issues: Whether penalty for concealment was leviable when the assessee adopted a bona fide stand on a debatable question regarding the taxability of supplies made by a Government department to its contractors.
Analysis: The controversy turned on whether the supplies constituted sales exigible to tax, but the Court treated that question as debatable and noted that proceedings on the same point had been kept pending elsewhere. In that setting, the assessee's consistent position that the transactions were not sales and that the amount was not includible in taxable turnover was held to be a bona fide stand. On those facts, the absence of mens rea meant that non-disclosure of the disputed turnover could not be characterised as concealment attracting penalty under section 16(1)(i) of the Rajasthan Sales Tax Act, 1954.
Conclusion: Penalty was not leviable against the assessee for adopting a bona fide view on a debatable issue, and the orders deleting the penalty were sustained.
Final Conclusion: The revisions failed because a bona fide and arguable position on taxability cannot, by itself, amount to concealment warranting penalty.
Ratio Decidendi: Where an assessee takes a bona fide stand on a debatable issue of taxability, the absence of mens rea negatives concealment and penalty cannot be imposed solely on that account.
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