https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=263911 Where an appeal was dismissed only for failure to comply with a pre-deposit direction, the High Court treated a request for further time to deposit the remaining balance as reasonable when most of the directed amount had already been paid. The court considered the balance comparatively small and held that additional time would protect the revenue while preventing the appeals from being terminated solely for default in deposit. On that basis, the assessee was granted eight weeks to make the balance pre-deposit, and the first appellate authority was directed to hear and decide the appeals on merits after compliance. en-us Thu, 07 May 2015 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 12 Sep 2015 07:45:48 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=263911 Where an appeal was dismissed only for failure to comply with a pre-deposit direction, the High Court treated a request for further time to deposit the remaining balance as reasonable when most of the directed amount had already been paid. The court considered the balance comparatively small and held that additional time would protect the revenue while preventing the appeals from being terminated solely for default in deposit. On that basis, the assessee was granted eight weeks to make the balance pre-deposit, and the first appellate authority was directed to hear and decide the appeals on merits after compliance. Case-Laws VAT and Sales Tax Thu, 07 May 2015 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=263911