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35. Manner of payment of tax and other dues. section 60.

 (1) Any person who has to pay any amount due under this Act shall present a duly filled in challan in form VAT-C1 in quintuplicate along with the amount to be deposited either in cash or through a crossed bank draft or pay order in favour of the assessing authority, drawn on Scheduled Bank with a branch at the headquarters of the assessing authority or at the head office of the business of the dealer or at the branch office separately registered under the Act, to the Bank authorised to receive the money on account of the State Government. There the money will be received and credited to the proper head of account and an acknowledgement granted to the depositor by returning to him the original challan and the fifth copy of the challan. The other three copies of the challan having been retained by the Bank will be forwarded to the Treasury officer with the daily account. The Treasury officer will forward the duplicate copy to the officer incharge of the district concerned and retain the triplicate copy in his office. He will send the fourth copy to the Audit Office.

(2) Any amount due under the Act may also be paid by submitting a refund adjustment order in Form VAT-G9 or interest payment order in Form VAT-G10 to the assessing authority.

(3) In exceptional circumstances payment of any amount due under the Act may also be received in cash by the Commissioner or by an officer appointed to assist him under sub-section (1) of section 55 of the Act against receipt in Form VAT-G4:

Provided that any payment received under the foregoing provision, shall be deposited into the Government treasury on the same or the next working day in the name of the person making the payment.