THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala’s complete income arrears amounted to Rs 20,146.39 crore in March 2019, says the CAG report on income sector for the fiscal ended that month. Of this, Rs 5,765.84 crore had been excellent for greater than 5 years. The report was tabled within the meeting on Thursday.
The arrears got here to round 22% of the overall income of the state, in keeping with the report. The overall income receipts of the federal government for that fiscal was Rs 92,854.48 crore as towards the earlier 12 months’s Rs 83,020.14 crore. Tax and non-tax revenues constituted 67% of the receipts and the steadiness 33% was obtained from the Central authorities because the state’s share of divisible union taxes and grants-in assist.
The report known as for pressing intervention by the federal government to gather the excellent arrears. Out of the overall arrears, Rs 5,564.64 crore (27.62%) was pending from the federal government or authorities our bodies. The audit noticed that six chosen departments didn’t keep a complete and up-to-date database on the arrears. “Absence of immediate reporting of arrears to the Income Division and pursuance by the departments involved for realising the arrears had been the principle causes for the massive pendency of arrears,” it mentioned.
Main heads and arrears (Lin cr)
Tax on gross sales, commerce: 13,305.88
Taxes on autos: 2,457.16
Taxes and duties on electrical energy: 1,486.50
Stamps and registration charges: 1,401.62
Break-up of state authorities’s income (Lin cr)
Tax income: 50,644.11
Non-tax income: 11,783.24
Share from divisible union taxes, duties: 19,038.17
Grants-in assist: 11,388.96
Whole: 92,854.48
RLys, KSEB owe a lot to police
The arrears pending with the police division, L249.40 crore, is the price of offering guard providers
Main defaulters had been Southern Railway and KSEB whose arrears quantity to L146.31 crore (58.66%)
L56.53 crore pending from Authorities of India and
L6.39 crore from people, non-public corporations and personal corporations
