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Issues: Whether the impugned VAT assessments were liable to be set aside for want of proper enquiry and denial of effective opportunity, including supply of documents and cross-examination, and whether the matter should be remanded for fresh assessment.
Analysis: The Assessing Officer was required to act on the earlier directions for a proper and independent enquiry by considering the materials obtained from the Customs and Income Tax departments and by giving the petitioner a meaningful opportunity to meet the case against him. The impugned assessments were found to have been completed in a cursory manner, with mere reliance on existing materials and without dealing with the petitioner's request for documents and cross-examination of the relevant officials and bank personnel. In these circumstances, the assessments were held to be not properly framed. Although the Court noted that the materials from the Income Tax Department did not fully support the petitioner, it concluded that a fuller enquiry was still necessary.
Conclusion: The assessments were set aside and the matter was remanded for de novo consideration after supplying the requested documents and granting cross-examination, in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: A tax assessment made without proper enquiry and without granting an effective opportunity to confront adverse material, including requested cross-examination, is liable to be set aside and remitted for fresh consideration.
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