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Personal hearing is mandatory under Section 75(4) before passing of order

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..... Personal hearing is mandatory under Section 75(4) before passing of order - By: - CA Bimal Jain - Goods and Services Tax - GST - Dated:- 18-10-2024 - The Hon ble Allahabad High Court, Lucknow Bench in the case of EVEREADY INDUSTRIES INDIA LTD. LKO. THRU. SIGNATORY SH. SOUNIK MUKHERJEE VERSUS STATE OF U.P. THRU. SECY. MINISTRY FINANCE, U.P. LKO. AND ANOTHER - 2024 (6) TMI 162 - ALLAHABAD HIGH COUR .....

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..... T allowed the writ petition and held that it is mandatory to grant opportunity of personal hearing and stated that the word personal is intended to be added before the word hearing in Section 75(4) of the Central Goods and Services Tax Act ( the CGST Act ) which was erroneously left out at the time of drafting. Facts: M/s. Eveready Industries India Limited ( the Petitioner ) filed a writ petition .....

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..... against order dated April 27, 2024 ( the Impugned Order ) and Show Cause Notice dated August 07, 2023 passed by the Revenue Department ( the Respondent ) on the ground that despite the mandate of Section 75(4) of the Act which requires providing personal hearing no opportunity of personal hearing was granted, despite the Petitioner specifically asking for personal hearing, thereby the Impugned Ord .....

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..... er was passed in violation of the settled principles of natural justice. Issue: Whether personal hearing is a mandatory under Section 75(4) of the CGST Act before passing of order? Held: The Hon ble Allahabad High Court in the case of EVEREADY INDUSTRIES INDIA LTD. LKO. THRU. SIGNATORY SH. SOUNIK MUKHERJEE VERSUS STATE OF U.P. THRU. SECY. MINISTRY FINANCE, U.P. LKO. AND ANOTHER - 2024 (6) TMI 162 .....

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..... - ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT held as under: Noted that, the principles of statutory interpretation i.e all sections of the statue need to be read together, no, section in a statute can be rendered otiose (futile, no practical use), any ambiguity in the charging section must be read in favour of the assessee, the Court is empowered to supply causus omissus (addition in particular situation), if the Court .....

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..... believes that legislature intended a particular provision in certain manner but the same was not added during the drafting of the statute; keeping in view the overall scheme of the statute has to be complied with while interpreting the statute. Opined that, the word personal is intended to be added before the word hearing in Section 75(4) of the CGST Act which was erroneously left out at the time .....

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..... of drafting. Held that, the writ petition is allowed and the Impugned Order are set aside Directed that, the matters be remanded back to proper officer for granting of opportunity of personal hearing. Relevant Provision: Section 75(4) of the CGST Act Section 75. General provisions relating to determination of tax.- (4) An opportunity of hearing shall be granted where a request is received in writ .....

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..... ing from the person chargeable with tax or penalty, or where any adverse decision is contemplated against such person (Author can be reached at [email protected] ) - Scholarly articles for knowledge sharing authors experts professionals Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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