2002 (3) TMI 898

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....oods, after being received, were despatched outside the State of Tamil Nadu, i.e., to Raigarh in the State of Madhya Pradesh. The petitioner/ assessee then filed a return and was issued a pre-assessment notice in respect of the goods purchased by him from the T.N.E.B. and which goods were despatched outside the State. The assessee took an objection that the goods were exempted under the notification dated November 1, 1982 bearing G.O. Ps. No. 1215, under which a blanket exemption was granted in respect of the tax payable under the Tamil Nadu General Sales Tax Act, 1959 (in short "the TNGST Act") on all sales of goods effected by the T.N.E.B. and its branches in the State of Tamil Nadu under section 17(1) of the TNGST Act. This plea was not ....

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....ibunal, the petitioner paid the whole tax found due against him on May 30, 1997. The matter had died its logical death. 4.. Thereafter, however, the petitioner filed two original petitions before the Tamil Nadu Taxation Special Tribunal (hereinafter referred to as "the Special Tribunal"). By the first petition, he challenged the order of the Appellate Tribunal, which he had failed to challenge and had allowed to reach its finality. By the second original petition, he challenged the assessment made in pursuance of the order of the Appellate Tribunal. In his petitions, the petitioner mainly relied on the Supreme Court judgment reported in [1999] 114 STC 1; (1998) 5 SCC 349 (Shanmuga Traders v. State of Tamil Nadu), which according to him was....

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....nder section 38 of the TNGST Act. The Special Tribunal also found that the petitioner had even made the payment of the tax as was found due against him. The Special Tribunal also recorded a finding that there could be a liability under section 7-A of the TNGST Act and that the Appellate Tribunal had confirmed the view of the appellate authority as well as the assessing authority that section 7-A(1)(c) was applicable to the facts of the case. In that view also, the Special Tribunal dismissed the petitions. The present two writ petitions are filed as against the said order of the Special Tribunal. 7.. Mr. Chopda, learned counsel for the petitioner, very persuasively pointed out that the judgment of the Supreme Court in Shanmuga Traders v. St....