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Issues: Whether the authorities could reopen and reassess the dealer under the regular VAT scheme for the period April 2014 to March 2015 when the composition certificate had been cancelled only with effect from 22.07.2015.
Analysis: The composition facility under the KVAT Act was granted by a certificate issued under the rules. The certificate had not been cancelled during the relevant tax period. The cancellation notice and order expressly operated only from 22.07.2015 and enabled filing of regular returns only from 01.08.2015. The statutory scheme made cancellation of the composition certificate a necessary precondition for moving the dealer out of composition and subjecting it to regular VAT assessment. In the absence of cancellation for the period in question, reassessment under the regular scheme for April 2014 to March 2015 was not permissible.
Conclusion: The reassessment for the period when the composition certificate was subsisting was illegal and unsustainable; the challenge succeeded in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: So long as a composition certificate granted under the KVAT Rules remains un-cancelled for the relevant period, the dealer cannot be reassessed under the regular VAT scheme for that period.