Clean Money’ is an ambitious project under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi which targets black money, benami property and transactions and keep check on Shell Companies and Income Tax Department aims to make operation ‘Clean Money’ a success, said Principal Chief Income Tax Commissioner (MP & CG) AK Jaiswal.
He was talking to media persons here on Monday on completion of 157 years of Income Tax Department.
Jaiswal further said that the Government provides several beneficial schemes for the tax payers and in return it is expected that the tax payers should disclose their income honestly and if tax payer would shirk responsibility the result could be as harsh as prosecution.
During his interaction he praised Goods and Service Tax (GST) as by the implementation of GST, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has provided a framework for making one nation one tax rate which would increase the number of tax payers in the country.
Apart from collecting tax, department provides facilities of CPGram, E-Nivaran, Aykar Setu and others for providing better facilities to the tax payers which could help in availing the services by the tax payers easier.
At present in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh there are 97 offices in 59 cities having 340 officials and 975 employees. In the State the total number of tax payers is 26,84,000. This year the target of tax collection in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh is Rs 22,173 and the target for the last financial year was Rs 17,888 and by exceptional efforts of the department the tax collection reached Rs 19140.