UP govt to crack down on tax evasion, eyes over Rs 1.4-trn revenue in FY20

CM Adityanath also exhorted the excise department to pull up its socks for posting higher excise revenue in the current financial year

Uttar Pradesh government will crack down on Goods and Services Tax (GST) evaders to improve its tax and non-tax revenue collection.

The state is targetting a tax mop-up of Rs 1.4 trillion in the current financial year, 4.4 per cent higher than the revised budgetary estimates of Rs 1.34 trillion in 2018-19. 

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has asked the commercial tax department to employ technology tools to identify tax evaders for taking action. In a review meeting held in Lucknow recently, he underlined that UP was the largest consumer state and, as such, it should top the GST collection tally