Supreme Court of India

The Commercial Tax Officer and Ors. v. M/s. Biswanath Jhunjhunwala and Anr.

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Reported as [1996] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 286
Bench S.P. Bharucha J.
Decided 20 August 1996

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SALES TAX: Bengal Finance (Sales Tax) Act 1941 and Bengal Sales Tax Rules 1941, Rule 80(5)(ii) as amended-Amendment in 1974, made effective from November j; 1991, enabling Revenue to reopen assessments made more than six years previously-Whether amendment prospective and applied only to assessments made after November 1, 1971--Held, no; on a plain meaning, amendment enabled reopening of assessments having become final six years previousl~-lnterpretation of Statutes. The assessment of first respondent, a registered dealer under the Bengal Finance (Sales Tax) Act, 1941 for the assessment year

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to · 2 mentioned

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