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Determination of taxable turnover presuming sales - As far as the present case is concerned again, the Assessee cannot be expected to negatively prove that there was no purchase suppression. The Assessee in fact placed materials to show that the transaction was a loan transaction. If the Department was to doubt it, it had the onus then shifted to the Department to show that there was in fact the transaction which mimicked purchase suppression. With the Department not having discharged the onus, the authorities below including the Tribunal, the ACST and the STO were in error in proceeding on a presumption that it was a case of purchase suppression. - HC
Determination of taxable turnover presuming sales - As far as the present case is concerned again, the Assessee cannot be expected to negatively prove that there was no purchase suppression. The Assessee in fact placed materials to show that the transaction was a loan transaction. If the Department was to doubt it, it had the onus then shifted to the Department to show that there was in fact the transaction which mimicked purchase suppression. With the Department not having discharged the onus, the authorities below including the Tribunal, the ACST and the STO were in error in proceeding on a presumption that it was a case of purchase suppression. - HC
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