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Issues: (i) whether the petitioner should be relegated to the statutory appellate remedy against the impugned demand order instead of maintaining the writ petition; (ii) whether two authorities from different States could proceed simultaneously to recover the same alleged luxury tax liability and whether the concerned authority should be restrained from further action until the issue is resolved in accordance with law.
Issue (i): Whether the petitioner should be relegated to the statutory appellate remedy against the impugned demand order instead of maintaining the writ petition.
Analysis: The impugned order was a demand under the A.P. Tax on Luxuries Act, 1987, for which the statute provided an appeal under Section 11(1), subject to the conditions in Section 11(2). The Court treated the availability of such an efficacious remedy as a strong reason not to bypass the appellate forum, especially where factual questions also arose. It therefore directed the petitioner to pursue the statutory appeal without treating that course as submission to the Act's jurisdiction and granted limited protection to enable filing of the appeal.
Conclusion: The petitioner was relegated to the statutory appeal and was granted a brief protection against enforcement to facilitate filing of the appeal.
Issue (ii): Whether two authorities from different States could proceed simultaneously to recover the same alleged luxury tax liability and whether the concerned authority should be restrained from further action until the issue is resolved in accordance with law.
Analysis: The Court held that if any amount was recoverable from the petitioner on the same alleged collection, it could not be pursued by both authorities at the same time. Any inter se dispute between the two State authorities as to entitlement to collect the amount was a matter between them and could not result in simultaneous recovery against the petitioner. In view of the parallel proceedings, the Court considered it necessary to prevent further orders until the liability issue and entitlement to collect were lawfully resolved.
Conclusion: The concerned authority was restrained from passing any further order until the issue was finally decided.
Final Conclusion: The writ petition was not entertained on merits, but limited interim protection was granted, the petitioner was directed to pursue the statutory appeal, and further coercive or parallel action was restrained pending lawful resolution.
Ratio Decidendi: Where an effective statutory appeal is available, writ relief may be declined, and parallel recovery by different authorities for the same alleged tax liability cannot be permitted to continue simultaneously.
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