Minimum Import Price restrictions for Black Pepper, Areca-nuts and Apples upheld; procedural laying failure not fatal, notifications to be placed befo...
Transaction value between related persons requires market-equivalent pricing; importer must prove declared value mirrors ordinary international trade ...
Classification of exported insecticides under export tariff affirmed; reclassification and related penalties set aside and MEIS scrip jurisdiction rec...
Misclassification between copra and dry coconut: customs recovery and re-valuation quashed for lack of prior licensing-authority invalidation, appeals...
Assessment proceedings conducted in the name of a deceased taxpayer where no verifiable intimation of death or PAN surrender was placed on record do not render the assessment void ab initio; the defect is an irregularity curable by bringing the legal heirs on record and rectification under succession provisions (section 159) is appropriate. The administrative officers lack of knowledge of death is excused where legal heirs failed to promptly notify authorities, and precedent treating assessments on deceased persons as irregular rather than illegal supports rectification to bind legal heirs on record.
Assessment proceedings conducted in the name of a deceased taxpayer where no verifiable intimation of death or PAN surrender was placed on record do not render the assessment void ab initio; the defect is an irregularity curable by bringing the legal heirs on record and rectification under succession provisions (section 159) is appropriate. The administrative officers lack of knowledge of death is excused where legal heirs failed to promptly notify authorities, and precedent treating assessments on deceased persons as irregular rather than illegal supports rectification to bind legal heirs on record.
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