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Now big officials of the State Tax Department will also be punished for negligence in revenue collection. They will not be able to blame small officers only for less recovery. For this, an action plan has been prepared by the State Tax Department. Action will also be taken against the senior officers of that division if laxity is found in other works ranging from revenue collection to return filing by traders. In the new system, additional and joint commissioners will also come under the purview of action.
Under the system so far, there is a provision to take action against Deputy Commissioners, Assistant Commissioners, State Tax Officers, Enforcement Team officers, Collection Amins and their equivalent officers, considering them responsible for all activities related to increasing revenue collection. . While Additional and Joint Commissioner level officers posted at Zonal Headquarters are not considered responsible for the decline in revenue collection. In several consecutive review meetings, the reasons for the low revenue collection were the apathy of the senior officials as well as the junior officials.
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In the review meeting held last days, a lot of indifference was revealed at the level of monitoring of revenue collection and return filing in several districts of Jhansi, Varanasi, Gorakhpur, Ghaziabad, Lucknow, Kanpur, Moradabad, Bareilly and Saharanpur zones. For this, considering only the small officials as responsible, the government has changed the system of taking action on the basis of negligence and asked to take action against big officials as well.
Additional and Joint Commissioners will have to give clarification
According to the new system, now the additional commissioner and joint commissioner of the division in which returns are filed by less than 70 percent traders will also be considered guilty. Along with this, clarification will be sought from both the level officials. After this, after examining the explanation at the level of State Tax Commissioner, a recommendation will be sent to the government for further action. On the basis of this, action will be taken against the concerned Additional and Joint Commissioner.
