(1) An industrial unit, availing the benefit of exemption from payment of tax or the benefit of capital subsidy under the existing rules, may, within fifteen days from the date of coming into force of these rules, make an application in Form VATA5 along with documents mentioned therein to the officer in charge of the district indicating its option to change over to deferment of tax for the remaining period and the remaining extent of benefit. No application shall be entertained if not preferred within time. An application with incomplete or incorrect particulars including the document required to be attached therewith shall be deemed as having not been made if the applicant fails to correct it or/and complete it on an opportunity afforded to him in this behalf.

(1A) Notwithstanding the limitation prescribed for making application in Form VAT-A5 under sub-rule (1), an application in Form VAT-A5 shall be entertained upto 24th October, 2003, subject to the payment of late fee of one thousand rupees along with the application and that the tax payable by such units, if not paid already in time, shall be paid with interest at the rate as applicable as per provisions of sub-section (5) of section 14 of the Act.

(2) On receipt of application under sub-rule (1), the officer in charge of the district after satisfying himself that the application is within time, correct and complete in all respect and the applicant is a genuine industrial unit, shall, within fifteen days, issue an entitlement certificate in Form VAT-G14 in lieu of exemption certificate where the applicant unit was availing the benefit of exemption from payment of tax and a revised entitlement certificate in Form VAT-G15 where the applicant unit was availing the benefit of capital subsidy which shall take effect from the appointed day and shall entitle the unit to deferment of payment of tax for five years. The Unit may, in lieu of availing deferment of tax, elect, by indicating in the application made under sub-rule (1), to make payment of one-half of the tax otherwise due before the time prescribed for filling of quarterly returns and where the tax is so paid the unit shall have no further liability to pay tax for the said period and such payment for the purpose of computation of tax benefit availed by the unit and input tax passed on to the purchaser, if otherwise admissible to him, shall be deemed to be the full payment. This facility shall also be available to a unit who has been availing the benefit of deferment of payment of tax before the appointed day provided such unit sends an intimation to the officer incharge of the district within 15 days of coming into force of these rules in writing in this behalf. The entitlement or the revised entitlement certificate, as the case may be, shall be subject to the conditions and restrictions specified therein or under the existing rules under which the eligibility/entitlement certificate to such applicant was issued.

(3) Where a unit holding an entitlement or a revised entitlement certificate, as the case may be, elects to avail deferment of payment of tax, it shall, if no security for the payment of deferred tax is required to be furnished under the existing rules, furnish security for the full amount of tax to be deferred to the satisfaction of the appropriate assessing authority. The security shall be furnished in advance for the tax to be deferred in a year or the remaining period if less than one year within a month of the beginning of the year or before the end of the remaining period if less than a month and where such security falls short of the amount of tax deferred at any time additional security of the adequate amount shall be furnished within a month. The security shall be fully maintained for the whole of the period till the payment of the deferred tax is fully made. If a unit fails to furnish the security or the additional security, as the case may be, in time, it shall not be entitled to the benefit of deferment of payment of the unsecured amount of tax and such tax shall become recoverable immediately with interest as if the unit was not entitled to the deferment of this tax.

(4) Where an industrial unit, availing the benefit of exemption from payment of tax or the benefit of capital subsidy under the existing rules fails to make an application in Form VAT-A5 in the manner and within the time prescribed under sub-rule (1) the exemption certificate or the entitlement certificate, as the case may be, shall cease to be operative and such industrial unit, from the appointed day, shall not be entitled to avail the exemption from payment of tax or the benefit of capital subsidy, as the case may be.

(5) The deferred amount of tax shall be converted into interest free loan in respect of each industrial unit on annual basis in the manner laid down by the Industry Department of the State Government.

(6) Any amount becoming due for payment on account of failure to comply with the conditions (I) and (II) of sub-clause (i) of clause (d) of sub-section (2) of section 61, shall be paid without interest by twelve equal monthly instalments.

(6a) (i) Mega units coming up in backward areas shall be entitled to get benefit of conversion of 50% of Value Added Tax paid on the sale of such goods into interest free loan for a period of 7 years from the date of commercial production repayable after a period of 5 years from the date of grant of interest free loan.

(ii) Small Scale Industrial units coming up in backward areas shall get similar benefit for a period of 5 years from the date of commercial production repayable after a period of 5 years from the date of grant of interest free loan.

(iii) Food processing units coming up anywhere in the State shall get similar benefit of conversion of 75% of Value Added Tax paid into interest free loan for a period of 5 years from the date of commercial production repayable after a period of 5 years from the date of grant of interest free loan.

(iv) Down stream industries of Indian Oil Corporation Limited to be set up in the industrial park to be established as a part of petro chemical hub shall be entitled to get benefit of conversion of 50% of Value Added Tax paid on the sale of goods produced into interest free loan for a period of 7 years from the date of commercial production repayable after a period of 7 years from the date of grant of interest free loan.

Explanation .- The quantum of interest free loan shall be determined on the basis of tax actually paid along with the returns filed in the Department of Excise and Taxation under the Haryana Value Added Tax Act, 2003(6 of 2003), only in respect of intra-State sales of manufactured goods for consumption within the State, except plant and machinery. The use of such goods as raw material in manufacturing of other goods within the State shall not be considered as consumption within the State.