https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=239696 Where a statutory appeal under the Punjab Value Added Tax Act, 2005 was available, a writ petition challenging an assessment order and demand notice was held not maintainable. The challenge concerned the correctness of the assessment, taxability of the transaction, and penalty, which were treated as matters involving an alleged erroneous exercise of jurisdiction rather than a case of total absence of jurisdiction. In that setting, the proper remedy was the appellate process, and the requirement of pre-deposit did not justify resort to writ jurisdiction. The petitioner was relegated to the alternative remedy of appeal. en-us Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:50:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=239696 Where a statutory appeal under the Punjab Value Added Tax Act, 2005 was available, a writ petition challenging an assessment order and demand notice was held not maintainable. The challenge concerned the correctness of the assessment, taxability of the transaction, and penalty, which were treated as matters involving an alleged erroneous exercise of jurisdiction rather than a case of total absence of jurisdiction. In that setting, the proper remedy was the appellate process, and the requirement of pre-deposit did not justify resort to writ jurisdiction. The petitioner was relegated to the alternative remedy of appeal. Case-Laws VAT and Sales Tax Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=239696