Where the assessing authority or any other officer not below the rank of Assistant Commercial Taxes Officer as authorized by the Commissioner is satisfied that any dealer has, without reasonable cause, failed to furnish prescribed returns within the time allowed, he may direct that such dealer shall pay by way of penalty,-

(i) in case the dealer is required to pay tax every month under section 20, a sum equal to rupees one hundred per day for first fifteen days of such default and thereafter a sum equal to rupees five hundred per day for the period during which the default in furnishing such return continues, but not exceeding in the aggregate thirty percent of the tax so assessed; and

(ii) in all other cases, a sum equal to rupees fifty per day subject to a maximum limit of rupees five thousand, for the period during which the default in furnishing of such return continues.