By Our Reporter
Shillong: The Comptroller & Auditor General (CAG) in its report (Revenue Receipt) for the year ended March 31, 2011, has pointed out that the State Government has failed to realize revenue receipts amounting to Rs 11,725.90 crore during the last five years due to under-assessment/short/non-levy of various taxes, non-tax receipts and others.
According to the CAG report, out of a total of Rs 11,725.90 crore, the State Government had accepted cases involving an amount of Rs 3,882.67 crore only.
“Out of the accepted amount, only Rs 178.18 crore could be recovered by the government,” the report added.
During the year 2010-11, the State Government raised total revenue of Rs 873.14 crore which is only 20.47 per cent of the total of Rs 4,266.02 crore.
“The revenue raised by the State Government in 2010-11 as compared to 2009-10 was 21.37 per cent higher,” the report stated, adding that the balance of 79.53 per cent of receipts comprised of the State’s share of divisible taxes and duties amounting to Rs 901.65 crore and grants-in-aid amounting to Rs 2,491.23 crore.
Moreover, the report revealed that the under-assessment/short/non-levy/loss of revenue in the test check of records of taxes on sale, trade, state excise, motor vehicles tax, other tax receipts, forest receipts and other non-tax receipts in a total of 240 cases conducted during 2010-11 amounts to Rs 557.24 crore.
“The departments accepted assessments/short/non-levy of revenue of Rs 1,695.49 crore in 74 cases,” the report added.
The report has further recommended the government to take immediate action to install a mechanism to monitor prompt recovery of duties involved in accepted cases.