Speed up recovery of dues, Minister directs tax officials

Commercial Tax Minister Amar Agrawal has directed officials to expedite the process of recovery of revenue dues. Pending revenue recovery cases should be disposed of on priority, he said.

Chairing a review meeting of his Departmental activities, Agrawal said that Rs 1,902 crore revenue from commercial tax has been received during April to June 2014, which is 15.79 per cent more than that of the corresponding period last year. In the meeting, Agrawal told officers that traders, who have not paid advance tax and dues intentionally, C-Form should not be issued to them, besides action be taken through attachment of their bank account and movable assets.

Disposal of all appeal and under observation pending cases, in which huge recovery amount is involved, should be taken up on a priority basis, he added. Regular observation of those traders, who have been given instalment facility should be done and those who have not paid regular instalment, remaining amount should be recovered from them at one go.

Additional Chief Secretary, Finance, DS Mishra asked all divisional commissioners for evaluation of actual revenue increase after reduction of revenue received from organised sectors like petroleum companies, Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP), South Eastern Coalfields limited (SECl), NMDC, Balco under government departments, government undertakings and private undertakings, from the total revenue receipt. Commissioner, Commercial Tax, RS Vishwakarma said that out of the total revenue of Rs 1,902 crore received from April to June this year, Rs 1,527.82 crore State tax, Rs 189.73 crore Central tax and Rs 184.87 crore Entry tax are included.