The Raipur Municipal Corporation (RMC) administration has geared up to recover hefty revenue from big tax evaders who have not paid their taxes for a long time.
The RMC administration has issued an order in this regard to prepare ‘zone wise lists’ of such tax evaders whose outstanding tax amount is above Rs 50, 000.
The tax evaders pay only half of the amount of their due tax and leave the rest pending, officials informed.
After November-December month, the pace of revenue recovery was quiet slow despite the relevant Department fixing the tax collection target for the fiscal 2016-17 worth Rs 120 crore given by the Municipal Commissioner Rajat Bansal.
The tax collection target of Rs 150 crore was to be achieved for the current fiscal. The Department has recovered only Rs 95 crore so far which is Rs 25 crore behind the target set by the Municipal Commissioner and Rs 55 crore behind the target to be achieved for the current fiscal.
Notably, Municipal Commissioner Rajat Bansal has directed Revenue Department of RMC to achieve target of revenue of Rs 120 crore for the current fiscal and try to raise the target upto to Rs 150 crore if possible for the current fiscal 2016-17.
For achieving target, Municipal Commissioner has directed the relevant department to accelerate the pace of recovery of taxes.
Also, the Department has been conducting special camps for recovery of revenue which has not received good response so far.
The departmental officials still have hope that people will rush in last three to four days to pay their outstanding tax in camps .
The Department is recovering property tax and user charge separately. Revenue officials recover property tax from residential and commercial buildings whereas Health Department of RMC recovers user charge.
As many as 100 big tax evaders from whom the RMC administration has to recover hefty outstanding tax amount to lakhs of rupees. Every zone office has at least 7 to 8 big tax evaders who have to deposit hefty amount of tax but none of them had voluntarily made the payment so far.
Talking to The Pioneer, Raj Kumar Dongare, Deputy Commissioner (Revenue), RMC said that the Revenue Department has prepared lists of such tax evaders to achieve cent percent tax collection target for the current fiscal 2016-17.