KERALA CALL CENTRE FOR TRADERS' AID
Kochi, November 30, 2009
The Hindu Business Line
The State Finance Minister, Dr T.M.Thomas Isaac, has said that a call centre for looking into the complaints related to the Commercial Taxes Department will start functioning in the State from January 1. Complaints can be registered by the caller in four languages – Malayalam, English, Hindi and Tamil.
Addressing reporters after the district tax collection review meeting, the Minister expressed concern over the low tax collection in Ernakulam district compared with other districts in the State. Except Ernakulam, the Minister said, all districts registered an increase in excess of 15 percent in tax collection. However, Ernakulam district had registered only a 4 percent increase.
Input tax credit
Checks made it clear that many traders in the district had claimed input tax credit more than they were actually eligible for.
As in other districts, it had been noticed that returns of traders were increasingly showing local purchases to claim input tax credit as provided under the VAT. But a close look proved that sales had not shown a corresponding increase with the local purchase figures shown by the traders, he said.
According to the Minister, the Government would thoroughly scrutinise this anomaly and place the findings before the traders and organisations. Steps would be taken to check tax evasion, he said, but added that traders would not be harassed.
UNIQUE ID NUMBER OPTIONAL: NILEKANI
Mumbai, November 29, 2009
The Hindu Business Line
The ID number to be granted to individuals under the Unique Identification Number Authority of India project is meant for identifying the person and will not be proof of the holder's citizenship, project head, Nandan Nilekani, said on Saturday.
“The unique ID number is optional and will not be proof of the person's citizenship, Nilekani said during a meeting with senior Maharashtra Government officials at Mantralaya,” an official release said. “Nilekani is very hopeful that the unique ID system would cover at least 60 crore Indians within 12 to 18 months,” it said.
Nilekani, who met the Chief Secretary, Johny Joseph, and other officials for discussing implementation of the unique ID project in Maharashtra, expressed confidence that the state with its concentration of IT industry, would lead in implementing the project, an official said. The Union Government would take help from banks, Election Commission, state governments and other organisations to collect data of people.
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