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Issues: Whether the reassessment under Section 16 of the Tamil Nadu General Sales Tax Act, 1959 and the consequential 11 times addition could be sustained in the absence of disclosed materials and adequate opportunity to the assessee.
Analysis: The reassessment was made without clearly disclosing the basis on which the turnover was treated as escaped assessment. The authorities relied on bills and prior-year reasoning without establishing how those materials were connected to the assessee or whether they were unavailable at the original assessment stage. The assessee had also sought adjournment on the ground of ill health, but the reassessment was completed without meaningful consideration of that request. The finding of suppression and the adoption of an 11 times estimate were therefore unsupported by material and were vitiated by breach of natural justice.
Conclusion: The reassessment and the consequential addition were not sustainable and were rightly set aside in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The revision succeeded because the reassessment lacked a valid material basis and was made in breach of procedural fairness, rendering the consequent estimate unsupportable.
Ratio Decidendi: A reassessment cannot be sustained when the basis for escaped turnover is not disclosed or supported by material and the assessee is denied a fair opportunity to meet the proposed action.
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