Law: Sales Tax Act, 1990

Section: 45B,48

Law: Constitution of Pakistan, 1973

Section: 199

Sales Tax Act (VII of 1990)--- ----Ss. 45B & 48---Constitution of Pakistan, Art. 199---Constitutional petition---Illegally claimed/received refund of input tax---Recovery notices---Pendency of appeal before Commissioner (Appeals), Inland Revenue---Suspension of recovery notices during pendency of appeal---High Court directed that revenue authorities could not recover the tax amount demanded from petitioner/tax payer till decision of his appeal before the Commissioner (Appeals); that Commissioner (Appeals) should decide the pending appeal of petitioner within 30 days in accordance with law through a speaking order after hearing all the necessary parties and that till such time the appeal was decided, the recovery notices shall remain suspended---Order accordingly. Central Board of Revenue v. Chanda Motors 1993 SCMR 39 and Sun Rise Bottling Co. (Pvt.) Ltd., v. Federation of Pakistan 2006 PTD 535 ref. ORDER ATIR AMAHMOOD, J.---The grievance of the petitioner is that his appeal is pending before respondent No.2 and has not come up for hearing as yet. Learned counsel states that during the pendency of his appeal, impugned notices dated 10-6-2014 and 8-7-2014 for the recovery of tax demand of Rs.1,826,032 have been served upon the petitioner. He states that he does not press this petition and would be satisfied if a direction is given to respondent No.3 to decide the appeal of the petitioner in accordance with law expeditiously. In this regard, he has relied upon the cases titled Central Board of Revenue v. Chanda Motors (1993 SCMR 39) and Sun Rise Bottling Co. (Pvt.) Ltd. v.Federation of Pakistan…

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