This Report contains 28 paragraphs including two reviews relating to non/short levy of taxes, duties, interest and penalty, etc., involving tax effect of Rs. 82.74 crore. Some of the major findings are mentioned below:
The total receipts of the State Government for the year 2008-09 was Rs. 18.452.31 crore. Revenue raised by the Government during the year was Rs. 14.893.73 crore. comprising tax revenue of Rs. 11.655.28 crore and non-tax revenue of Rs. 3.238.45 crore. The State Government also received Rs. 1.724.62 crore as State's share of divisible Union taxes and Rs. 1.833.96 crore as grants-in-aid from the Government of India.
Arrears of revenue at the end of March 2009 as reported by some departments were Rs. 2.366.78 crore. of which Rs. 606.22 crore were outstanding for more than five years.
At the end of June 2009. 6.553 audit observations involving Rs. 8,663.68 crore relating to 2.868 inspection reports issued upto December 2008 remained outstanding.
Test check of the records of the taxes on sales/trade etc., stamp duty and registration fee, state excise, taxes on goods and passengers, taxes on vehicles, other tax and non-tax receipts conducted during the year 2008-09 revealed under assessments/short levy/non-levy/loss of revenue aggregating Rs. 281.13 crore in 37,889 cases. During the course of the year 2008-09, the departments accepted under assessment of Rs. 15.75 crore in 2,861 cases. Of these, the departments recovered Rs. 1.30 crore.