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TMI Blog2006 (8) TMI 541X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... for the assessment year 1984-85 by the Sales Tax Tribunal, Bench-Haldwani. The question of law involved in this revision is as under: Whether, in the facts and circumstances of the case, the Sales Tax Tribunal has erred in law in dismissing the appeal filed by the revisionist holding that there was no liability on the part of the dealer to pay interest under section 8(1) of the U.P. Sales Tax ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ing authority also demanded interest under section 8(1) of the aforesaid Act. Section 8(1) of the U.P. Sales Tax Act, 1948, reads as under: 8. Payment and recovery of tax. (1) The tax admittedly payable shall be deposited within the time prescribed or by thirty-first day of August 1975, whichever is later, failing which simple interest at the rate of two per cent per mensem shall become due an ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... n 4-B. From the above provision, it is clear that the tax admittedly payable would be the one which is payable either on the turnover shown in the returns by the dealer himself or if such turnover is shown in the account or estimates by the dealer. The dealer preferred appeal against the order of the assessing authority before the Assistant Commissioner, Sales Tax, under section 9 of the ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... e dealer. In the similar circumstances in Commissioner of Sales Tax v. Damodar Das, Kalyan Das [1996] UPTC 589, the Allahabad High Court has taken the view that for the mere reason that the exemption claimed by the dealer was refused to him would not make the amount of tax to be an admitted liability. And in such cases, interest under section 8(1) of the aforesaid Act, cannot be levied. For the ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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