COURT: | Gujarat High Court |
CORAM: | B. N. Karia J, M. R. Shah J |
SECTION(S): | 254(2) |
GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
CATCH WORDS: | limitation period, rectification of mistake |
COUNSEL: | Hardik P Modi |
DATE: | January 25, 2017 (Date of pronouncement) |
DATE: | August 4, 2017 (Date of publication) |
AY: | - |
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For purposes of filing a rectification application, the period of limitation of six months commences from the date of receipt of the order sought to be rectified by the assessee and not from the date of passing of the order |
The second part of the Section requires that the Tribunal shall make such amendments if the mistake is brought to its notice by either party to the appeal before it. The party to the appeal can bring the fact of apparent mistake on record only after going through the order made by the tribunal. Therefore, to read that the period of limitation has to computed at any time within six months from the date of the order does not fit in either with legislative intent or the language employed by the provision.
15. There is another angle from which the matter can be approached. It is only the party to the appeal who finds that the order contains a mistake apparent from the record and is aggrieved by such mistake, would be in a position to move an application seeking rectification of the order. Therefore also, unless and until a party to the appeal is in a position to go through and study the order it would not be possible, nor can it be envisaged, that a party can claim to be aggrieved by the mistake apparent from the record. Hence, even on this count the period of limitation has to be read and understood so as to mean from the date of the receipt of the order
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