JK govt detects 3,045 cases of tax evasion in ’09-10

The Jammu and Kashmir government has detected 3,045 cases of evasion of tax by various trade and business houses in the state in 2009-10.Revealing this in its report on state finances for the year ended March 31, 2010, Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) of India has said that 2,357 cases of evasion of tax were detected by the Commercial Tax Department and 688 cases of evasion of tax were detected by Passenger Tax Department in 2009-10.

There were 278 cases of tax evasion pending for recovery of the dues as on March 31, 2009, it said, adding, with this the total cases of evasion of tax has gone up to 3,322.

An amount of Rs 297.86 lakh is pending for recovery in these cases, it said adding assessment, investigation and inclusion of penalty has been completed in 3,112 cases.

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