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Issues: Whether the assessee was entitled to the benefit of payment of tax at the compounded rate under Section 6 of the Tamil Nadu Value Added Tax Act, 2006 when the authority found that no inter-State purchases had been made and insisted on proof of filing of an option letter.
Analysis: The assessee had stated in reply to the pre-assessment notice that all purchases were local and supported that stand with purchase details and invoices. The assessment order itself accepted that the goods had not been purchased from outside the State, but the benefit under Section 6 was still denied only on the ground that documentary evidence of filing the option letter had not been produced. Once the factual basis for the objection, namely inter-State purchases, was not established, the Court held that there was no need for a separate application to claim the statutory benefit.
Conclusion: The assessee was entitled to the benefit under Section 6, and denial of the compounded-rate treatment for want of a separate option letter was unsustainable.
Final Conclusion: The assessment order was set aside and the writ petition was allowed, leaving the assessee entitled to the statutory compounding benefit.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the factual condition disqualifying the assessee is not established, the statutory benefit cannot be denied merely for non-production of a separate option letter if the scheme does not otherwise require it in the circumstances.
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