The 159th National Income Tax Day was observed in the city on Wednesday. A seminar was held under the leadership of RN Sahay, Principal Income Tax Commissioner, Ranchi at Ranchi Club.
The Chief Guest for the occasion was Jharkhand High Court judge Justice Deepak Roshan where as Chief Secretary Dr DK Tiwari was the Special Guest. Income Tax Bar Association Ranchi, Chairman Mahendra Chooudhary and Deepak Maroo Chairman Federation of Jharkhand Chamber of Commerce and Industries were also present.
DGP KN Chaubey, officials of the various Departments and jury members of the competitions were also present.
Sahay welcomed the distinguished guests to the seminar and spoke the importance of National Income Tax Day.
Quoting the budget presented by the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitaraman, he said that this year the goal is to increase the economy’s limit from 2.7 trillion is 3 trillion and that by the end of 2023-24 if 5 trillion.
“This means that the Central Government will focus at the grass root level, poverty alleviation, health, education and a strong defence system.
In this regard, the main revenue is in tax collection- 60 per cent of revenue comes from tax collection.
This is further divided in two parts- direct and indirect tax. In the country’s GDP direct tax is about 6 per cent,” the commissioner added.
A corporative campaign was also launched which included E- filing in various cities, facilitating income tax returns through TRP, easy ASK centres and awareness campaigns.
Under this programme at 6 am, officials and employees of the department actively participated in a ‘Taxathon’ from the Ranchi office to Albert Ekka Chowk.
From the Income Tax Department, Pushpendra Kumar, Rajeev Ranjan Bharti and Shiv Soy stood first, second and third in the ‘Taxathon’ respectively.
An inter school debate and question answer programme was also organised for the students of class VIII to XII at Ranchi Club.
Nisha Oraon, Joint Income Tax Commissioner Ranchi, Manish Jha, Joint Income Tax Director, Nayan Jyotinath Joint Income Tax Commissioner (TDS), Chinmaya Aurangabadkar Commissioner of Income Tax were also present on the occasion.