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Issues: (i) Whether the writ petition challenging the assessment order should be entertained despite the availability of an alternate statutory appeal; (ii) Whether the petitioner made out any exception to the alternate-remedy rule on the grounds of lack of jurisdiction, violation of natural justice, or ineffectiveness of the appellate remedy.
Issue (i): Whether the writ petition challenging the assessment order should be entertained despite the availability of an alternate statutory appeal.
Analysis: The challenge arose from an assessment made under the Tamil Nadu Value Added Tax Act, 2006. The Court noted that the petitioner had a statutory appeal available against the impugned assessment order. In fiscal matters, writ jurisdiction is exercised with greater restraint, and the availability of an efficacious alternate remedy ordinarily weighs against interference under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.
Conclusion: The writ petition was not entertained on merits and the petitioner was relegated to the appellate remedy.
Issue (ii): Whether the petitioner made out any exception to the alternate-remedy rule on the grounds of lack of jurisdiction, violation of natural justice, or ineffectiveness of the appellate remedy.
Analysis: The Court found that the assessment proceedings showed issue of notice, consideration of objections, and grant of personal hearing. One objection had even been accepted and one proposal of the enforcement wing had been dropped, indicating application of mind by the assessing authority. On the materials presented, the Court held that no case was made out to show lack of jurisdiction, breach of natural justice, or that the statutory appeal was ineffectual or not efficacious.
Conclusion: No exception to the alternate-remedy rule was established.
Final Conclusion: The Court declined to interfere in writ jurisdiction and directed the petitioner to pursue the statutory appeal, leaving the merits open in that forum.
Ratio Decidendi: In fiscal matters, writ jurisdiction should ordinarily not be invoked where an efficacious statutory appeal is available, unless a recognised exception such as lack of jurisdiction, breach of natural justice, or ineffectiveness of the remedy is demonstrated.
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