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Report of 2010 - Financial Audit on Revenue of Government of West Bengal

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Overview

This Report contains 27 paragraphs including one review relating to under-assessment/non-realisation/loss of revenue etc. involving RS 222.56 crore. Some of the major findings are mentioned in the following paragraphs: The total receipts of the Government for the year 2009-10 increased to RS 36,921.65 crore against RS 36,904.39 crore in the previous year. Of this, 52 per cent was raised by the Government through tax revenue (RS 16,899.98 crore) and non-tax revenue(RS 2,438.11 crore). The balance 48 per cent was received from the Government of India as the State's share of net proceeds of divisible Union taxes (RS 11,648.16 crore) and grants-in-aid (RS 5,935.40 crore).

As on 30 June 2010, 1,109 inspection reports issued upto December 2009 containing 3,012 audit observations involving RS 4,253.42 crore were outstanding for want of response or final action by the concerned departments. Test check of the records of sales tax, land revenue, state excise, stamp duty and registration fees, profession tax, electricity duty, amusement tax, other tax and non-tax receipts conducted during the year 2009-10 indicated under-assessment/short levy/loss of revenue amounting to RS 540.26 crore in 951 audit observations. During the course of the year, the departments accepted underassessment of RS 136.20 crore in 386 audit observations pointed out in 2009-10 and recovered RS 1.92 crore at the instance of audit.

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