67. Treatment of tax incentive cases

(1) Where any unit is availing a tax holiday on the date of commencement of the Act, it shall be treated as converted as the unit availing tax deferment. The balance period available as on 31st day of March 2005 to such units shall be doubled. The eligibility amount shall be the balance available to such unit as on that date. Balance period means the difference of period between date of completion of eligibility shown in the certificate of eligibility and 1st day of April 2005.

(2) The units already availing tax deferment prior to commencement of the Act, shall continue to be eligible to avail the balance amount available as on 31st day of March 2005 and for the period as mentioned in the eligibility certificate.

(3) The tax payable and the tax to be claimed as deferment for each period shall be the net tax (i.e. output tax less input tax) which shall be debited to the eligibility amount. xxxx 

CDL Industries was granted tax holiday for a period of 7 Years from 10-10-1999 for an amount of Rs.65, 22,000. As on 31-03-2005, the dealer has availed an amount of Rs.45,10,000.

The period originally availed is 5 (five) years, 5(five) months and 21 days. The period of availment prior to 01-04-2005, when worked out on doubling the same, is 10(ten) years (11) months and 12 days. Deduct this period form total period of 14 (fourteen) years, as availed to the Units under Deferment Scheme originally. The balance period to be availed after 1-4-2005 is 36 months and 18 days. As per the above sub-rule (1) of this Rule, the dealer now is eligible to avail Tax Deferment for the balance amount of Rs.20,12,000/- for a period of 36 months and 18 days i.e. 01-04-2005 to 18-04-2008.

The amount of deferment, availed for each year, shall be paid after the end of the period of availment to the dealer after the conversion form Tax holiday Scheme to Deferment Scheme.

The Calculation is as follows:

(4) Where any VAT dealer is availing deferment, a declaration in Form 502 shall be filed for every tax period in addition to the return in Form VAT 200.

(5) The amount availed in the first year, in which the unit is converted from Tax holiday Scheme to Deferment Scheme, shall be paid in the month succeeding the month in which the period for which the Unit is eligible for availment of the incentives is completed and the amount availed in the second year, shall be paid in the year, subsequent to the year in which the amount, availed in the first year is paid or payable and son on.

(6) Any industrial unit that availed deferment of tax under any order issued by the Government either before or after the commencement of the Act, may be allowed to pay the net present value of such deferred tax availed by such industrial unit by calculating the same at a discounted rate, as may be prescribed by the Government from time to time by way of a notification.

(7) The industrial unit, opting for prepayment of deferred tax under sub-rule (6) may file an application exercising its option before the Commissioner.

(8) On receipt of the application from the industrial unit exercising the option for prepayment of deferred tax under sub-rule (6), the Commissioner may accept such prepayment of the deferred tax.