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Issues: Whether, for levy of State Development Tax under Section 3-H of the U.P. Trade Tax Act, 1948, the dealer's aggregate turnover had to be computed for the entire assessment year 2007-08, including the period after enforcement of the VAT Act from 1.1.2008, or only for the period during which the Trade Tax Act remained operative.
Analysis: Section 3-H makes State Development Tax payable on dealers whose aggregate turnover exceeds the prescribed limit, and Section 3(2) emphasizes turnover "during the assessment year". The relevant unit for computation is therefore the complete assessment year, not a truncated period. The fact that the VAT Act came into force from 1.1.2008 did not create a separate mode of calculation or exclude turnover for the remainder of the assessment year. As the assessee continued business throughout the year, the turnover for the full assessment year had to be taken into account. Section 18 had no application because the business had not been discontinued.
Conclusion: The aggregate turnover for the entire assessment year was rightly considered for levy of State Development Tax, and the assessee was liable to pay it.
Final Conclusion: The revision failed and the levy was upheld on the basis that turnover for the whole assessment year governs liability under State Development Tax provisions.
Ratio Decidendi: For levy of State Development Tax, aggregate turnover must be computed with reference to the entire assessment year, irrespective of a mid-year change in the governing tax regime, unless the statute provides otherwise.
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