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Revenue coordination panel a non starter
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The Revenue Coordination Committee (RECCE), constituted for coordination among various revenue-earning and enforcement agencies of the State and Central governments, is yet to hold its first meeting though five months have elapsed since its constitution.
Panel, headed by the Chief Secretary and comprising Principal Secretaries of revenue-earning departments, is meant to plugging loopholes in revenue collection
Hyderabad: The Revenue Coordination Committee (RECCE), constituted for coordination among various revenue-earning and enforcement agencies of the State and Central governments, is yet to hold its first meeting though five months have elapsed since its constitution.
The panel, headed by Chief Secretary and comprise Principal Secretaries of various departments, like Finance, Industries, Commercial Taxes, Excise, and Agriculture, has not yet started its work. The government issued the GO-762 on March 13, but strangely some of the committee members claimed that they had no clue about RECCE.
A senior bureaucrat told The Hans India that he had heard about the panel for the first time. The IAS officer was not even aware that he was one of the key members of the committee. In the GO issued by the government, it was stated that RECCE would exchange information every month relating to firms and licences, details of cases of default or evasion of tax, besides recommending measures to tap revenue from existing sources, prospects for changes in law, rules and procedure, among others.
The RECCE’s role in plugging loophole to achieve full potential of revenue and ensuring that the targets were attained was very crucial. If the panel functions properly, the job of the Finance Minister would become very easy. The four to five key departments like Commercial Taxes, Excise, Registration and Stamps and Transport have their respective standard operating procedures (SOPs) to garner revenues, but there is near absence of interface between these departments and Finance Department leading to leakage of revenues to the State exchequer, according to officials.
The Chief Secretary, who is the RECCE chairman, is to hold meetings, periodically, on prices of essential commodities, Hyderabad Metro Rail among others. He is yet to focus his attention on the co-ordination panel.
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