JUDGMENT The petitioner is aggrieved by recovery proceedings for recovery of tax assessed on the petitioner under the Kerala Value Added Tax Act. The petitioner does not dispute the liability to pay or the quantum. He only seeks facility to pay the amounts due in instalments. This is opposed by the learned Government Pleader. Taking a lenient view, I direct respondents 1 and 3 to permit the petitioner to pay off the amounts due in six equal monthly instalments starting from 1.9.2011. Every subsequent instalment shall be paid on the first working day of every succeeding month. If the petitioner pays the instalments on the due dates without default, coercive proceedings for recovery of the amounts shall be kept in abeyance. However, if the petitioner commits default in payment of any of the instalments, it would be open to respondents 1 and 3 to continue proceedings as now initiated without having to issue any fresh notice or proceedings in that regard. The writ petition is disposed of as above.