1967 (6) TMI 42

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....owers under section 32 of the Madras General Sales Tax Act, 1959, has jurisdiction to make an order levying penalty for the first time on the assessee where the assessing authority in its original order of assessment failed to make any observation on penalty. It is not in dispute that the assessing authority added Rs. 30,879.64 to the turnover reported, and that the turnover so added had been supp....

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....rpreted by this Court in State of Madras v. Ramulu Naidu[1965] 16 S.T.C. 865., where it was held that the penalty contemplated by the sub-section depended on and followed a finding as to the incompleteness or incorrectness of the return submitted, and formed part of the proceedings resulting in the best judgment assessment, and that, therefore, what was contemplated by sub-section (3) of section 1....

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....hority, and, therefore, section 32(1) will be inapplicable. We are not persuaded to accept the argument. As we said, the assessing authority in its notice proposing addition of turnover, called upon the assessee to show cause why a penalty should not be levied. It must be taken, therefore, that the assessing authority must have applied its mind to the question of penalty. There is no evidence that....