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Business News/ Politics / News/  Govt to step up tax ‘surveys’ to boost revenue: Pranab
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Govt to step up tax ‘surveys’ to boost revenue: Pranab

Govt to step up tax ‘surveys’ to boost revenue: Pranab

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New Delhi: Tax evaders beware! Faced with sluggish industrial growth and its impact on revenue collections, the government on Friday said it would step up “surveys" to maintain the tax buoyancy.

“We are trying to maintain (tax) buoyancy by enhancing/strengthening the tax collecting machinery; by bringing more people through surveys and other information within the tax net...", finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said in the Lok Sabha.

The word ‘survey’ according to the Income Tax Act, 1961 refers to collection of information at business premises, assessing expenditure on marriages parties and other celebrations.

Replying to a debate on demands for supplementary grants of Rs34,724 crore for this fiscal, Mukherjee said that so far in 2011-12, the revenue collections have been robust with indirect tax collection growing by 30% and direct tax revenues up 26% so far.

However, he conceded that the government revenue would take a hit if industrial production goes down.

“If the industrial production goes down then it will have an adverse impact in future", he said adding the government is also trying to resolve tax disputes through a settlement mechanism to unlock the money.

The amount stuck in income tax cases was Rs2,42,377 crore as on 31 December 2010 as compared to Rs2,88,336 crore at the end of 2009.

While the industrial growth has remained in the positive territory, the pace of expansion has come down to 5.7% during the April-May period this fiscal against 10.8% a year ago.

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Published: 05 Aug 2011, 06:52 PM IST
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