TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2022 (12) TMI 891
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....rders') passed by the learned Assistant Value Added Tax Officer (hereafter 'the AVATO') of the Department of Trade and Taxes, Government of NCT Delhi under Section 32 of the Delhi Value Added Tax Act, 2004 (hereafter 'DVAT Act') for the fourth quarter of the Assessment Year 2016-2017 and the first quarter of the Assessment Year 2017-2018, as being violative of Article 14, 19 and 265 of the Constitution of India. Factual Context 2. M/s Mangalam Traders is the proprietorship concerns of Mr. Raj Kumar (hereafter 'the petitioner'). He is engaged in the business of inter-State trading of cosmetics, toiletries, disinfectant, deodorants, drugs, medicines, fruit jams, insect repellents, mosquito coils, ready mix food items and washing soaps u....
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.... with the Authorities within a period of 15 days from today and the respondent authority will thereafter process the refund claim of the petitioner within the statutory period. In case there is a delay in the process of refund claim of the petitioner beyond the statutory period, it would be open to the petitioner to file an application in these writ petitions and ask for revival With the aforesaid observations, the writ petition is disposed of." 5. The petitioner furnished the physical forms, and the respondents passed a refund order dated 11.12.2017 for the first quarter of the Assessment Year 2017-2018, wherein the refund amount of Rs.20,86,966 was allowed after adjusting Rs.3,60,884/- against the claim of refund of Rs.24,47,8....
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.... application was also rejected. 10. The petitioner appealed the assessment order dated 11.04.2018 before the Objection Hearing Authority (hereafter 'the OHA') but the same was disposed of by an order dated 18.07.2019. The OHA remanded the matter to the assessing authority with the direction that the assessing authority shall pass a well-reasoned and speaking order after affording the petitioner an opportunity to be heard. 11. Thereafter, the concerned VATO issued notices under Section 59(2) of the DVAT Act and passed the impugned assessment orders dated 29.08.2020. A plain reading of the impugned orders indicates that they are substantially in similar terms as the order dated 11.04.2018. 12. A perusal of the impugned assessment ord....
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....no allegation that any of the C Forms produced by the petitioner are forged or fabricated. 16. The principal question, to be addressed, is whether the petitioner could be denied the benefit of the C Forms on the ground that the same have not been verified, or on the basis of the mismatch of the products. 17. The said issue is covered by the decision of the Supreme Court in State of Madras v. M/s Radio and Electrical Ltd & Anr. (supra). The relevant extract of the said decision reads as under:- "14. The Act seeks to impose tax on transactions, amongst others, of sale and purchase in inter-State trade and commerce. Though the tax under the Act is levied primarily from the seller, the burden is ultimately passed on the consumers....
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.... light of the declaration mentioned in the certificate in Form C. He cannot hold an enquiry whether the notified authority who issued the certificate of registration acted properly, or ascertain whether the purchaser, notwithstanding the declaration, was likely to use the goods for a purpose other than the purpose mentioned in the certificate in Form "C" There is nothing in the Act or the Rules that for infraction of the law committed by the purchasing dealer by misapplication of the goods after he purchased them, or for any fraudulent misrepresentation by him, penalty may be visited upon the selling dealer." 18. In Pentex Sales Corporation v. Commissioner of Sales Tax, Delhi: ILR (2013) 3 Del 2296, this court had referred to the decisio....