Haryana Excise and Taxation Minister Kiran Choudhry on Saturday said the State Government would get Central Sales Tax (CST) compensation amounting to Rs 1,275 crore by the end of February, 2014.
The State Government was also trying to bring e-commerce under the ambit of tax. Addressing a Press conference here, Choudhry said Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram had assured that a budget provision for the said amount of compensation had been made. She said she had strongly taken up the issue of compensation at higher level as a result of which the Centre would now compensate the State to settle its pending claims up to the year 2010. She said real estate developers had also been brought under the ambit of tax and revenue collection of over Rs 200 crore is expected from them. This apart, the Government was also trying to bring e-commerce as in case of eBay, OlX and others registered in Haryana under the ambit of tax. They were also liable to pay tax to the government for their commercial activities, she added.
The Minister said despite slow down in the economy, the State Government had collected tax revenue of Rs 12,524 crore up to October 2013 during current financial year which is 10.09 per cent higher as compared to the corresponding period of last year. She said the Finance Department had given us 21 per cent higher target this year as against the actual collection of Rs 19,813 crore during year 2012-13.