(1) Subject to such conditions as it may impose, the State Government may, if it is necessary so to do in the public interest in case of double taxation or to redress an inequitable situation or for sufficient and reasonable cause, remit by an order either generally or specially, the whole or any part of the tax, penalty or interest payable in respect of any period by any dealer or a class of dealers or of any specified class of sales or purchase.

(2) The Commissioner may, in such circumstances and subject to such conditions and within such limit as may be prescribed remit the whole or any part of the tax, penalty or interest payable, in respect of any period, by any dealer.