Finance and Commercial Taxes Minister Jagdish Deora has said that Madhya Pradesh ranks fifth in the country for filing tax returns. Till July 2022, up to 93.37 percent of the returns were filed. In this achievement, Both business class and state's officers have their contribution in the achievement. Tax revenue of Rs 20,902 crore is achieved in the state, which surpasses the target of Rs 20 thousand 477 crore. Shri Deora was addressing the half yearly review meeting of the department at the Academy of Administration today.
Deora said that after the introduction of GST, the importance of Finance Department has increased even more. The Finance Department is now entirely efficient by continuously improving its technical proficiency. Information technology is being used continuously and in better manner. This has improved financial management.
The Finance Minister said that the Commercial Taxes Department has made unprecedented efforts to increase the revenue. As a result, the gross revenue in the year 2020-21 was Rs 42558.91 crore, which increased to Rs 49068.10 crore in the year 2021-22.
This is an increase of 15.29 percent as compared to the previous year. He also released the news bulletin of the department. He said that due to the active contribution of the taxpayers of Madhya Pradesh, Revenue of Rs 12450.13 crore has been received in GST and Rs 8451.71 crore in VAT till September in this financial year, which is an increase of 20.48 percent compared to revenue received in last year's corresponding period.
Principal Secretary Commercial Tax Deepali Rastogi described the continuous increase in revenue collection as the result of the efforts of the departmental officers. Revenue collection is increasing more than previous months. It is also the intention of the government that the convenience of the taxpayer should be kept paramount. He told the officers that no taxpayer should be exploited.
Our endeavour should be to be transparent and corruption free.
Commissioner Commercial Taxes Shri Lokesh Kumar Jatav told in the presentation of half-yearly review that the revenue collection till September 2022 was 103 percent more than the previous year. GST growth was also higher by 24 percent. Madhya Pradesh is among the first 5 states in the country in GST return filing. Our return filing is 85 per cent. With extra efforts, Rs 210 crore was deposited in the account of the government by the department. Our target will be to collect additional revenue of Rs 377 crore in the next 6 months. In the next six months, efforts to increase revenue are being focused on increasing the tax base, VAT recovery, GST audit and physical verification of suspicious dealers. Shri Jatav informed that vehicle checking has been automated from the Data Command and Control Center. In this system, the facility of SMS related to the vehicle and uploading of photos will be mandatory. Along with this, all the notices are being issued online through the portal. The department has taken care of the facilities of the taxpayers in the ease of doing business. Special efforts are being made for simple and clean tax administration. Welcome kit for the convenience of new taxpayers, WhatsApp based chatbot for the convenience of small taxpayers, Help Desk, YouTube channel, new notifications are being given in every office for easy communication with the taxpayers.
In the first session of the conclave, commissioner Ms. Tanvi Hooda gave necessary instructions after reviewing the departmental officers circularly. In the second session, detailed audit training was given by CA Shri Virendra Chauhan. Also the questions were resolved. Enforcement related training was given by senior departmental officers.
The vote of thanks was given by Senior Deputy Commissioner Shri RK Sharma. It was conducted by Sushri Raksha Dubey. GST officers of all the districts including Deputy Secretary Commercial Tax Shri RP Srivastava were present.