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Issues: Whether denial of cross-examination in reassessment proceedings, where the third-party records formed the basis of the reassessment, violated the requirement of reasonable opportunity and vitiated the reassessment orders.
Analysis: The statutory and procedural requirement of reasonable opportunity includes an effective chance to meet the material relied upon against the dealer. Where reassessment is founded on records or information obtained from a third party, the dealer must ordinarily be given an opportunity to test that material by cross-examination, unless such opportunity is lawfully and factually impossible after appropriate steps to secure the records or witnesses. A bald assumption that old records may not be available is not a sufficient answer to the request for cross-examination. The authority was required to take steps to procure the records or otherwise afford a meaningful opportunity before proceeding to confirm the reassessment.
Conclusion: Denial of cross-examination amounted to denial of reasonable opportunity and the reassessment orders were liable to be set aside. The issue is decided in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: Where reassessment is based on third-party material, reasonable opportunity under tax law includes a fair opportunity to challenge that material through cross-examination, and refusal to grant such opportunity without proper inquiry into the availability of the material vitiates the assessment.
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