Haryana Minister for Excise and Taxation Kiran Chaudhry on Tuesday said that new avenues of revenue generation would be explored with more effective enforcement of law and added that those who ought to pay tax but were neglected earlier, might now come into the ambit of tax.
Chaudhry was addressing a State-level conference of Assessing Authorities, Excise and Taxation Officers (ETOs). It is for the first time that any Minister has had direct interaction with Assessing Authorities. She reviewed the tax collected so far during the current financial year and said that such type of conferences will now be held regularly as these help in fine tuning of the department.
The ETOs apprised the Ministers of their problems and also gave suggestions for improving the tax recoveries. Chaudhry also heard the problems being faced by these Assessing Authorities in collection of tax and assured to resolve those problems. She said the department has collected revenue of Rs20,000 crore during 2012-13, which was 9.45 per cent higher than the previous year. Financial Commissioner and Principal Secretary of the Department Rajan Gupta said that two Taxation Inspectors would be attached with each Assessing Authority for speedy
recovery of taxes.