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The Income Tax department has registered a 13 per cent net growth in tax collections in Andhra Pradesh.
Total tax collections in the State crossed the Rs 25,000-crore mark last fiscal. This was inspite of the Telangana agitation that disrupted economic activities in the State during the year.
In terms of gross collection, the growth was 16 per cent. There was a 46 per cent rise in filing of returns, Mr Rajeswara Rao, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, said.
He launched the department's new initiative Ayakar Seva Kendra (ASK), a single window contact for centralised receipt and registration of certain specified categories of documents filed by taxpayers including filing of returns. The department would, henceforth, not receive any documents directly if there was ASK on its premises.
He said the launch of ASKs was intended to change the IT department's image from an ‘enforcement agency' to a service-oriented organisation. Initiatives are being launched to facilitate payment of advance tax through credit/debit cards making the transaction paperless and cashless.
The IT department at Hyderabad is facing staff shortage to the extent of 25 per cent as a result of which existing officials were overburdened.
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