(1) Every registered dealer and every person liable to get himself registered under the Act shall keep and maintain a true and correct account of his daily transaction showing the value of the entry of scheduled goods into a local area for consumption, use or sale therein.
(2) Every such dealer or person shall keep separate purchase and sales account in respect of each of the scheduled goods.
(3) Every such dealer or person shall keep the current books of accounts at the place or places of business entered in the registration Certificate. Every purchase shall be brought to account then and there as soon as the purchase is effected.
Explanation.— For the purpose of this sub-rule, “current books of accounts” shall include computer hardwares and softwares used in connection with accounting of business activities.
(4) Every wholesale dealer or manufacturer shall maintain day to day stock accounts in respect of each of the scheduled goods and variety of the same scheduled goods dealt with by him. The stock accounted shall contain particulars of purchases or stock receipts, sales or stock transfers and balance of stock.
(5) Every dealer shall maintain subsidiary accounts of stock for each branch, depot or godown. Every branch shall also maintain the stock accounts in respect of its own transactions in the form adopted for this purpose by its Head Office.
(6) Every dealer, while delivering goods to another dealer in pursuance of sale or while consigning the goods to his branch or depot or vice versa, where the aggregate amount of the goods so sold or consigned is one thousand rupees or more, shall issue a delivery note in triplicate in Form-19. The delivery notes shall be maintained in the form of books containing one hundred Forms, and the Forms shall be serially machine numbered and one series of numbers shall be adopted for each assessment year.
(7) Any officer requiring any dealer to produce before him the accounts and other documents or to furnish any information relating to his business under sub-section (1) of section 36 of the Act, shall serve upon the dealer a notice in Form-20. The dealer on whom the notice is served shall produce the accounts and other documents and shall furnish information relating to his business on the date and time specified in the notice.