2024 (8) TMI 1130

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.... ORDER An order dated 18.12.2023 is assailed on the ground that the petitioner was unaware of proceedings culminating in the impugned order because the petitioner had engaged the services of an Accountant to handle GST compliances and such Accountant did not inform the petitioner about these proceedings. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that a request for an adjournment was made by ....

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....because the petitioner did not reply to the show cause notice and the personal hearing notices. In effect, the tax proposal was confirmed without considering the objections of the petitioner. In these circumstances, albeit by putting the petitioner on terms, it is just and necessary to provide the petitioner an opportunity to contest the tax demand on merits. 5. For reasons set out above, the imp....