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The Delhi government has undertaken an exercise to revise user charges for services provided by its various departments and agencies with the aim to augment non-tax revenue, officials said on Wednesday. The Finance department wrote to all additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries and secretaries earlier this month, asking them to furnish the details of user charges being collected for different services, they said. A Finance department circular noted the need to augment non-tax revenue in view of the "stretched state finances" due to the impact of COVID-19 in 2021-22 and the non receipt of GST compensation from the Centre since July 2022. "In this context, a need has arisen to augment non-tax revenue, which is currently at only 1.69 per cent and 1.35 per cent of total revenue collection of Delhi government during financial year 2020-21 and 2021-22, respectively," said the circular. The major components of non-tax revenue are interest charged on loans or advances, dividend
Micro, small and medium enterprises will continue to avail all non-tax benefits in their respective categories post re-classification for three years, the government said on Wednesday. The Ministry of MSME has notified that in case of re-classification in terms of investment in plant and machinery or equipment or turnover or both, and consequent re-classification, an enterprise shall continue to avail of all non-tax benefits of the category it was in before the re-classification for three years from the date of the such upward change. "This decision has been taken after due deliberations with MSME stakeholders and is in line with the Aatma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyan. The Ministry of MSME, Government of India, has allowed those registered MSMEs to continue to avail of non-tax benefits for three years, instead of one year, in case of an upward graduation in their category and consequent reclassification," an official statement said. Non-tax benefits include benefits of various government
The central government has so far collected non-tax revenue of Rs 84,023.78 crore during the ongoing financial year, Minister of State for Finance Anurag Singh Thakur said on Sunday. In a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha, Thakur said the total corporate tax collection so far during this financial year is Rs 95,533 crore, while the total GST collection in the current financial year is Rs 3,59,112 crore. "The total non-tax revenue collected by the Central Government, so far, during this financial year is Rs 84,023.78 crore (Provisional)," he said. Thakur said the total market borrowings of the central government so far this financial year stands at Rs 7.06 lakh crore. Replying to a separate question, Thakur said the overall expenditure of Government of India stood at Rs 10,54,209 crore as on July 31, 2020. He also listed out few expenditure items related to fighting COVID-19 pandemic, including Rs 8,575.17 crore under 'India COVID-19 Emergency Response and Health Syste