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2022 (9) TMI 1106

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..... tain conditions in para 229 of the order. A specific query was put to the State Counsel as to whether order dated 31.01.2022 has attained finality. He brings to my notice a communication that has been addressed by the Additional Chief Secretary/Commissioner of Commissioner of Commercial Tax to the GST Council on 31.03.2022 seeking the view of the Council and its guidance/directions in regard to the order of this Court dated 31.01.2022. There has been no response to the above communication and the State, like Samuel Beckett's Godot, has merely been waiting, much past the time for filing of writ appeal before this Court. In my view, this tantamounts to their having accepted the order of this Court dated 31.01.2022 as a conscious decisi .....

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..... P.Srinivas, Standing Counsel, Mr.C.Harsha Raj, Additional Government Pleader, Mr.TNC Kaushik, Additional Government Pleader, Mr.R.Siddharth Government Advocate ORDER All writ petitioners have challenged orders passed on various dates cancelling their registrations under the provisions of the Tamil Nadu Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 (in short 'Act'). 2. The petitioners have missed the bus in regard to several opportunities that were extended to them post-cancellation of the registrations by way of Amnesty Schemes wherein dealers were granted extension of time to take necessary steps to restore the cancelled registrations. 3. The Act contains two in built modes to enable revocation of cancellation or restorat .....

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..... eturn was itself only for one month, contrary to the statutory provision. Be that as it may, return for the month of September 2020 is stated to have been filed along with admitted tax for both months. 7. All other petitioners have approached this Court direct, by way of writ petition, seeking the relief of restoration. A learned Single Judge of this Court in a batch of writ petitions in WP.Nos.25048 of 2021 and batch has, by way of an order dated 31.01.2022, considered the cases of identically placed petitioners as before me. In the cases of those petitioners as well, orders of revocation had been passed and some of the petitioners had approached the assessing authority in terms of Section 30 seeking revocation, some had appealed the .....

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..... ffective from date of receipt of this order. i. The petitioners are permitted to file their returns for the period prior to the cancellation of registration, if such returns have not been already filed, together with tax defaulted which has not been paid prior to cancellation along with interest for such belated payment of tax and fine and fee fixed for belated filing of returns for the defaulted period under the provisions of the Act, within a period of forty five (45) days from the date of receipt of a copy of this order, if it has not been already paid. ii. It is made clear that such payment of Tax, Interest, fine/fee and etc. shall not be allowed to be made or adjusted from and out of any Input Tax Credit which may be lying .....

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