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Issues: Whether penalty could be levied under Section 12(3)(b) of the Tamil Nadu General Sales Tax Act, 1959 for payment of additional sales tax at a lower percentage than what was payable under Section 2(1)(aa) of the Tamil Nadu Additional Sales Tax Act, 1970, and whether the return filed by the dealer could be treated as incorrect or incomplete.
Analysis: The turnover disclosed by the dealer and the turnover determined by the assessing authority were the same. The dispute related only to the rate of additional sales tax paid, namely 1% instead of 1.5% payable under the applicable slab. The appellate authority held that the situation did not amount to an incorrect or incomplete return within the meaning of Section 12(3)(b). That view was affirmed by the Tribunal. Penalty provisions, being punitive in nature, require strict construction, and the provision invoked does not extend to levy of penalty merely because tax was paid at a lower percentage.
Conclusion: Penalty was not leviable on the facts found, and the challenge to the deletion of penalty failed.
Final Conclusion: The revision could not succeed, as no legal error was shown in the concurrent finding that the case did not attract penalty under the penalty provision invoked.
Ratio Decidendi: A penal provision must be strictly construed, and unless the statute clearly covers the default alleged, penalty cannot be imposed merely for payment of tax at a lower rate.
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