BHUBANESWAR: With a collection of Rs 36,729 crore revenue in 2017-18, the State Government has registered a growth of 19 per cent over the previous fiscal. “The total revenue collection from own tax sources reached Rs 28,682 crore, recording a growth of 25.51 per cent over last fiscal. However, the non-tax revenue shows a marginal growth with a collection of `8,047 crore,” official sources said. The major sources of own tax includes professional tax, land revenue, stamp and registration fees, State excise, commercial taxes including GST share, vehicle taxes and electricity duty while mining royalty constitute the bulk of the non-tax revenue.
The other sources of non-tax revenue are industrial water cess, irrigation water cess, interest and dividend from various sources and other departmental receipts. Chief Secretary Aditya Padhi, who reviewed tax collection during the last financial year at a high level meeting here, asked revenue earning departments to focus on collection of arrears from different establishments.
The departments were further advised to make case to case analysis of the long pending cases and finalise those on the basis of one time settlement. About 92 per cent of the State’s own revenue is being received electronically. Electronic mode of payment has led to detection of default, said Satya Rath, Deputy Secretary in Finance Department.