The State Government on Tuesday claimed that it achieved around 10 per cent growth in revenue collection during 2015-16 over the previous financial year 2014-15.
It was revealed at a high-level meeting on revenue collection held under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary AP Padhi at the State Secretariat wherein Development Commissioner and Additional Chief Secretary Finance R Balakrishnan outlined the issues for discussion.
Reviewing overall revenue collection during 2015-16, the Chief Secretary advised major revenue earning departments to enhance revenue collection further.
He asked the Steel and Mines Department to enhance the level of production within the permitted capacity of mining leases. Similarly, the Revenue and Disaster Management Department was asked to initiate follow up action on the study report about stamp duty and registration fees.
Balakrishnan advised the concerned departments to use the IT platform for Focused Arrear Recovery Monitoring System (FARMS). It was proposed to enable the system fully in collection of stamp duty, land revenue, industrial water rate and forest royalty soon. This would help the taxpayers in making payment of tax and also facilitate the departments to monitor the revenue flow and detect defaults.
It was revealed that during 2014-15 the total own tax and nontax revenue collection were around 19,824.44 crore and `8070.87 crore, respectively and the amounts totaled at `27, 899.31 crore. As per the tentative figures available, 10 per cent more revenue has been collected during 2015-16.
The Chief Secretary directed the departments to adopt proactive revenue measures with a target of about `36,000 cr set for the current financial year so as to support higher plan outlay and enhanced capital investment.