Commercial Tax Department has adapted to the modern technology for increasing its efficiency, replacing the time-consuming manual way of work with quick and easy computerized online work. Department has computerized the revenue related works like tax-payment, return, registration, statutory form, refund and composition.
All these procedures are conducted online, much to the convenience of commercial tax offices as well as of businessmen in State. Online working will save the time of businessmen, who will no longer have to stand in long queues at revenue offices to get the work done, while it will also boost the efficiency and productivity of the commercial tax offices.
Commercial Tax Minister Amar Agrawal informed that initially Commercial Tax Department provided facility of e-challan to the businessmen of State for online tax-payment, in year 2006. In first three months of the current financial year, State Government received total revenue of Rs 1622 crores, out of which Rs 1501 crores have been received through e-challan. In this way about 92 per cent of the total revenue has been received through online e-challan.
In June, 2012, Department made it compulsory for all monthly the tax-payer businessmen to pay taxes online. Similarly, on April 1, 2012, online e-return payment was made mandatory for all the registered businessmen. In the first three months of current financial year, about 1118 businessmen paid online return. Now businessmen of State also have the facility to submit the list of sales-purchase online. Department has also made the registration procedure online from June 4, 2011 onwards. This year between April and June, about 2366 businessmen have been registered online. likewise, from July 1, 2012 they have also been provided with the facility of online refund. In the same span of time this year, about 1093 businessmen have availed the online refund of about Rs 20.63 crores.
Department has also provided the facility of online tax-assessment and tax-deposits along with the facility to fill related important forms online. Department initiated online facility for C-form from October 18,2011, E-1 and E-2 statutory form May 7, 2013, application pro-forma 5 from April 5, 2013, and the facility of online submission of application pro-forma 10-B for registration of cooked food and other small businessmen initiated on June 19, 2013. Between April 1, 2013 and 30 June, 2013, about 1.36 lakh C-forms have been issued to 5925 businessmen and 11,778 F-Forms were issued to 713 businessmen.