MINISTER OF THE STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE (SHRI S.S. PALANIMANICKAM)
(a): The overall target and collection of Direct Taxes for last three years and
up to Jan’09 during the current year is as given below.
Financial Budget Estimate Revised Estimate Actual Collection
Year (Rs in Crore) (Rs in Crore) (Rs in Crore)
2005-06 177077 170077 165208
2006-07 210684 229272 230184
2007-08 267490 304760 312202
2008-09 365000 345000 247396##
## Collection upto Jan’09,figures of 2008-09 are provisional.
The Chief Commissionerate wise - statement in respect of targets and actual collection of direct
taxes during each of the last three years and upto 31st Jan. 2009 is enclosed as at Annexure-A &
Annexure-B.
Chief Commissionerate (Zone) wise Central Excise and Customs Revenue Targets and actual collections
from 2005-06 to December,2008 are as Annexure-I & Annexure-II respectively.As the Service Tax
figures are not collected Zone wise,the Budget & Revised Estimates and revenue collected from
Service Tax is separately indicated in Annexure-III.
(b): The Government has taken the following steps to maintain the momentum of tax collection.
# All CCsIT/DGIT have been advised to take up more Surveys with a view to detect undisclosed
income,lower and non-deduction of tax at source(TDS).
# Tax machinery is being made more tax payer friendly by expeditious issues of refunds,response
to the grievance of the tax payers etc.
# Identification of cases involving substantial amount of arrears which are pending before
Commissioners (Appeals), ITAT and Settlement Commission and asking these authorities to dispose
off such appeals expeditiously.
# Monitoring of advance tax payments by top taxpayers by the senior officers of the Department.
# Further computerization of the Departmental business processes and databases for linking of
information and reporting of high value transactions to the tax authorities.
# Quoting of PAN being made mandatory in most of the financial transactions.
# Multi-media campaign to encourage voluntary compliance of taxlaws.
# Administrative steps to improve data collection and analysis, audit and anti evasion measures
and plugging loopholes in law and procedures have also been taken to improve the revenue position
in Central Excise.
