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Issues: Whether excess tax paid by the assessee under the settlement scheme could be adjusted towards the penalty component despite the embargo against refund of excess payment.
Analysis: The statutory scheme required payment of fifty per cent of the disputed tax where tax and penalty were both in dispute, together with twenty-five per cent of such fifty per cent of the disputed tax. On a plain reading of the provision, the twenty-five per cent liability was linked to the tax component and not to the penalty imposed. The provision was understood as permitting the excess tax already paid to be reckoned towards the amount required for the penalty dispute, and the rejection based solely on the no-refund language was therefore unsustainable.
Conclusion: The adjustment sought by the assessee was held to be permissible, and the rejection order was not sustainable.
Final Conclusion: The legal issue under the settlement scheme was answered in favour of the assessee, but the writ petition was ultimately closed because a settlement certificate had already been issued, leaving no further adjudication necessary.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the statute requires payment of a percentage of the disputed tax for settlement of tax and penalty disputes, excess tax paid may be adjusted towards the amount payable for the penalty component if the statutory formula links the penalty payment to the tax base rather than to the penalty amount itself.
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