Section 31(1) in Telangana Value Added Tax Act, 2005
(1)Any VAT dealer or TOT dealer or any other dealer objecting to any order passed or proceeding recorded by any authority under the provisions of the Act other than an order passed or proceeding recorded by an Additional Commissioner or Joint Commissioner or Deputy Commissioner, may, within thirty days from the date on which the order or proceeding was served on him, appeal to such authority as may be prescribed:[***] [Proviso omitted by Act No. 26 of 2017.][[Provided that] [Substituted by Act No.21 of 2011.] an appeal so preferred shall not be admitted by the appellate authority concerned unless the dealer produces the proof of payment of tax, penalty, interest or any other amount admitted to be due, or of such instalments as have been granted, and the proof of payment of twelve and half percent of the difference of the tax, penalty, interest or any other amount, assessed by the authority prescribed and the tax, penalty, interest or any other amount admitted by the appellant, for the relevant tax period, in respect of which the appeal is preferred.]