Court Quashes Tax Orders Due to Unjustified Guesswork in Absence of Separate Accounts for Best Judgment Assessment.

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....Best judgement assessment - formulae for levying the purchase tax on the ground that separate accounts are absent - There was absolutely no necessity or need for making any guess work. If the records are not available, then, the authority will have to take recourse to such best judgment assessment exercise. Instead of calling upon the petitioner to make available the records, the respondent had fallen back on guess work. On this sole ground, the impugned orders are quashed - HC....