Audit Reports
Karnataka
Report of 2011 - Performance Audit on Revenue of Government of Karnataka
Overview
This Report contains 23 paragraphs including three Performance Audits relating to non/short levy of tax, interest etc involving Rs.275.84 crore.
Total revenue receipts of the State Government for the year 2010-11 were Rs. 58,206.23 crore against Rs. 49,155.70 crore for the previous year. 72 per cent of this was raised by State through tax revenue (Rs. 38,473.12 crore) and non-tax revenue (Rs. 3,358.29 crore). The balance 28 per cent was received from the Government of India as State's share of divisible Union taxes (Rs. 9,506.32 crore) and grants-in-aid (Rs. 6,868.51 crore).3,738 inspection reports issued upto December 2010 containing 7,610 observations involving money value of Rs. 2,205.10 crore were pending settlement at the end of June 2011.
Records of 376 units of Commercial Taxes, State Excise, Taxes on Motor Vehicles, Land Revenue, Stamps and Registration Fees, Electricity Tax, Forest and other departmental offices were test checked during the year 2010-11. These revealed under-assessments, non/short levy of taxes, loss of revenue, failure to raise demands and other irregularities aggregating Rs. 905.66 crore in 1,057 cases. During the course of the year, the Departments concerned accepted under-assessments and other deficiencies of Rs. 122.62 crore in 259 cases, of which one case involving Rs. 22 lakh was pointed out in audit in earlier years. The Departments recovered Rs. 18.89 crore in 550 cases at the instance of audit.