Show Cause Notice Limitation Period Starts on Tax Payment Date; July 25, 2016, Return Filing Validates Notice Timing.

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....Extended period of limitation for issuing show cause notice - the relevant date is the date on which the tax has been paid. As is evident from Annexure-17, for the period between April, 2015 and September, 2015 the assessee has filed an ST-3 Return on 25.07.2016 while returns for the remaining relevant period were filed thereafter. The limitation, hence, commences on 25.07.20216 and as on 25.07.2021, the date of demand-cumshow cause notice; the five year period, has not expired. The ground of limitation raised fails and is rejected. - HC....