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| (1) The Commissioner may appoint persons to be tax collectors for the purposes of this Part of this Act. |
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| | (a) Where any business turnover tax is in default, the Commissioner may issue a certificate to a Government Agent, Assistant Government Agent, Fiscal, Deputy Fiscal or tax collector containing particulars of such tax and the name of the defaulter, and the officer to whom such certificate is issued shall be empowered and is hereby required to cause the tax to be recovered from the defaulter named in the certificate by seizure and sale of his movable property. | | |
| | (b) The said seizure shall be effected in such manner as the said officer shall deem most expedient in that behalf, and any property so seized shall be kept for five days at the costs and charges of the defaulter. If the defaulter does not pay the tax in default together with the costs and charges within the said five days, the Government Agent, Assistant Government Agent, Fiscal, Deputy Fiscal or tax collector shall cause the said property to be sold by public auction. | | |
| | (c) The sum realized by the sale shall be applied-
| | | (i) firstly in payment of the costs and charges of seizing, keeping and selling the property, and |
| (ii) secondly in satisfaction of the tax in default, |
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| (3) Where any business turnover tax is in default, and the Commissioner is of opinion that recovery by the means provided in subsection (2) is impracticable or inexpedient, he may issue a certificate to a District Court having jurisdiction in any district where the defaulter resides or in which any property movable or immovable owned by the defaulter is situate, containing particulars of such tax and the name or names of the person or persons by whom the tax is payable, and the Court shall thereupon direct a writ of execution to issue to the Fiscal authorizing and requiring him to seize and sell all or any of the property movable and immovable of the defaulter, or such part thereof as he may deem necessary for recovery of the tax, and the provisions of sections 226 to 297 of the Civil Procedure Code shall, mutatis mutandis, apply to such seizure and sale. |
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| (4) Whenever the Commissioner issues a certificate under this section, he shall at the same time issue to the defaulter a notification thereof by personal service or by registered letter sent through the post or by telegraph; but the non-receipt of such notification by the defaulter shall not invalidate proceedings under this section. |
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