1987 (8) TMI 419

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..... The assessee is the proprietary concern. The contention of the assessee was that the turnover of two separate businesses should have been assessed separately under two assessment orders and the Sales Tax Officer erred in having clubbed the turnover of the two separate businesses. The contention of the assessee having not been accepted by the Tribunal, the assessee has come up in revision. The short question for consideration is whether on the facts and circumstances of the case, the turnover of the two kilns belonging to the assessee, deserves to be assessed under two separate assessment orders and whether the Sales Tax Officer was right in having made a single assessment in respect of the aggregate turnover of the two kilns of the assess....

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....g no change in the individual and change being only in the business. It cannot be said that a new dealer comes into being when an individual starts different businesses in different periods of a single assessment year. The scheme of the Act is that a dealer has to be assessed in respect of his aggregate turnover. So the turnover may be of several businesses, but so long as there is no change in the identity of dealer, the turnover of all the businesses will have to be clubbed in a single assessment made for a given assessment year. The Act does not contemplate a situation that the same dealer will be assessed separately for each business carried on in a single assessment year. The assessment is not made for the turnover of a single business....