TMI Blog2023 (11) TMI 833X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... settled that Section 14 of the IBC does not create a bar for finalisation of the assessment and adjudication proceedings in respect of the taxes. On the resolution once the reference has been admitted, there is moratorium for recovery of the tax dues but, there is no bar for finalisation of the assessment and adjudication proceedings. On perusal of the impugned orders Exhibits P-7 to P- 10, it is evident that the petitioner was issued notice to which reply was filed and after hearing, these orders in Exhibits P-7 to P-10 has been finalised. There are no substance in the submissions of the Learned Counsel for the petitioner that: since the Official Liquidator was not heard, the order has become bad. It is the petitioner who was issued no ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... um under Section 33 (5) of the IBC commenced. In response to the public notice, the Liquidator of the petitioner has received claim in Schedule II, Form C from the 1st respondent presenting five items of claims before the Official Liquidator. 2. The Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that in Exhibits P-7 to P-10, orders on the basis of which five claims were submitted has been issued after the commencement of the moratorium under Section 14 of the IBC on 08.03.2021. His next submission is that the petitioner was not afforded with an opportunity by the competent authority to present the case and contesting the matter. 3. On the other hand, the Learned Counsel for the respondent submits that notice was issued to the petitioner t ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... est created by the corporate debtor in respect of its property including any action under the Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002; (d) the recovery of any property by an owner or lessor where such property is occupied by or in the possession of the corporate debtor. [Explanation. For the purposes of this sub-section, it is hereby clarified that notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for the time being in force, a license, permit, registration, quota, concession, clearances or a similar grant or right given by the Central Government, State Government, local authority, sectoral regulator or any other authority constituted under any other law for the time ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... lvency resolution process: Provided that where at any time during the corporate insolvency resolution process period, if the Adjudicating Authority approves the resolution plan under sub-section (1) of section 31 or passes an order for liquidation of corporate debtor under section 33, the moratorium shall cease to have effect from the date of such approval or liquidation order, as the case may be. 5. From perusal of Section 14 of the IBC and several Judgments of the other High Courts as well as the Supreme Court, it is well settled that Section 14 of the IBC does not create a bar for finalisation of the assessment and adjudication proceedings in respect of the taxes. On the resolution once the reference has been admitted, there ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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