(1) Every registered dealer having monthly tax liability exceeding rupees one lakh, other than those opted for composition of tax under section 7, shall pay the tax payable under the Act for every month within twenty days from the expiry of each month.

(2) In respect of the registered dealer, other than those opted for composition of tax under section 7, having monthly tax liability upto one lakh, the payment shall be made within thirty days from expiry of each month.

(3) All payments of tax under the Act shall be made in the appropriate Government treasury under challan in Form VAT-V.

The dealer has option to effect payment either through cash mode or through cyber-treasury so notified by the Government or through any other electronic system of payment available within the bank notified by the Government.

(4) Where any registered dealer submits the return in the prescribed form without a copy of the challan for having paid tax due or with payment of tax lesser than what is due, the Appropriate Assessing Authority shall issue a notice in Form VAT-VI to the registered dealer for the tax not paid. Such notice shall be deemed to be a demand notice and the registered dealer shall pay the said amount demanded within thirty days from the date of service of such notice alongwith the interest for delayed payment at the rate provided in clause(a) of sub-section(4) of section 25.

(5) Any dealer desiring to apply for remission of penalty and/or interest payable/paid under sub-section (4) of section 25 of the Act, shall file his application before the Commissioner affixing court fee stamps of the value specified in rule 46. The application shall contain the grounds for remission of penalty and/or interest. It shall further be endorsed on the application by the dealer that, to the best of his knowledge and belief the facts set out in the application for remission of penalty and/or interest and grounds for remission are true.

(6) The Commissioner shall, after considering all relevant material produced before him in this behalf and after affording the dealer a reasonable opportunity of being heard and for reasons to be recorded in writing, submit a proposal to the Government fixing the remission amount not exceeding fifty per cent of the penalty and/or interest payable or rejecting the request of the dealer, as the case may be. The order to that effect shall be passed only after obtaining Government approval.