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Issues: (i) Whether penalty under section 45(6) of the Gujarat Sales Tax Act, 1969 could be imposed for the first time by the revisional authority in suo motu revision proceedings; (ii) whether the restriction of interest under section 47(4A) of the Gujarat Sales Tax Act, 1969 to 36 months was justified.
Issue (i): Whether penalty under section 45(6) of the Gujarat Sales Tax Act, 1969 could be imposed for the first time by the revisional authority in suo motu revision proceedings.
Analysis: The demand of tax had already been confirmed and the penalty was deleted only on the reasoning that the revisional authority could not levy it for the first time. The Court followed the binding view that penalty under section 45(6) is mandatory and can be imposed in revisional proceedings where the assessment is taken in suo motu revision.
Conclusion: The deletion of penalty was unsustainable and the levy under section 45(6) was restored, in favour of Revenue.
Issue (ii): Whether the restriction of interest under section 47(4A) of the Gujarat Sales Tax Act, 1969 to 36 months was justified.
Analysis: The Court examined sub-clause (vi) of section 47(4A) and found no error in the Tribunal's view limiting interest to 36 months. The statutory framework supported the restriction applied by the Tribunal.
Conclusion: The restriction of interest to 36 months was upheld, in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The petition succeeded only to the extent of restoration of penalty under section 45(6), while the Tribunal's order on interest under section 47(4A) remained undisturbed.
Ratio Decidendi: A mandatory penalty may be imposed for the first time by the revisional authority in suo motu revision proceedings, and a Tribunal's restriction of interest is sustainable where the governing provision permits such limitation.
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