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Issues: Whether repeated tax audits under section 41 of the Orissa Value Added Tax Act, 2004 could be undertaken for the same tax period after an audit assessment under section 42 of that Act had already been completed.
Analysis: Section 41 empowers selection and conduct of tax audit, while section 42 provides for audit assessment on the basis of the audit report. Section 43 separately enables reopening where turnover has escaped assessment or there is under-assessment, and it provides its own safeguards and limitation period. Once an audit assessment for a particular period is completed under section 42, the assessing authority becomes functus officio for that period so far as a second audit assessment under the same provision is concerned. Permitting repeated tax audits for the same period would render the statutory scheme under section 43 redundant and would allow the Department to bypass the specific reopening mechanism and limitation prescribed by the Act and Rules.
Conclusion: Repeated tax audits and fresh audit assessments for the same tax period were held impermissible after completion of an audit assessment under section 42, and the impugned notice was quashed in favour of the assessee.
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