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The commercial tax revenue earned by the state government over selling petrol, diesel and cooking gas is now going to see the growth in the current financial year as compared to the last fiscal. Though the earning will be more, but not in the proportion of the previous year.
"The state government has earned Rs 1349.57 crore from the selling of petroleum products till January 31, 2013," Chhattisgarh's commercial tax minister Amar Agrawal said in a written reply to a question raised by Dharamjit Singh of Congress in the state legislative assembly on Wednesday.
In the financial year 2011-12, the commercial tax department had collected tax of Rs 416.88 crore from petrol sale in the state. The amount was almost Rs 100 crore more than the tax collected in the previous fiscal 2010-11 when the government collected Rs 322.97 crore.
In the current fiscal, the revenue is not likely to be in the same proportion despite there had been sharp increase in the price of petrol.
"Till January 31, the department had collected Rs 368.22 crore," Agrawal said. In next two months, the department could collect another Rs 70 crore to account total tax collection at about Rs 440 crore in 2012-13---just Rs 24 crore as compared to 2011-12 (Rs 416.88 crore).
