Montek Singh Ahluwalia to head Tamil Nadu Revenue Augmentation Committee
Siddique, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary to the Government, Finance Department, Government of Tamil Nadu; and M. Suresh Babu, Director, Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai.The committee will identify new and underutilised sources of revenue, examine non-tax avenues including dividends from public sector undertakings, land and asset monetisation, and improved user charges. Raja Gopal Sunkara, Joint Secretary to the Government, Finance Department, will serve as the Convener.The committee has been empowered to call for any records, returns, data or reports from any government department, public sector undertaking, board or revenue-collecting agency of the State.
- ▪Siddique, IAS, Additional Chief Secretary to the Government, Finance Department, Government of Tamil Nadu; and M.
- ▪Suresh Babu, Director, Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS), Chennai.The committee will identify new and underutilised sources of revenue, examine non-tax avenues including dividends from public sector undertakings, land and asset
- ▪Raja Gopal Sunkara, Joint Secretary to the Government, Finance Department, will serve as the Convener.The committee has been empowered to call for any records, returns, data or reports from any government department, public sector undertaki
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The Tamil Nadu government has constituted a Revenue Augmentation Committee under the chairmanship of Montek Singh Ahluwalia, economist, former Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, and former Member of the Prime Minister’s Economic Advisory Council.The committee has been tasked with recommending measures for the sustainable augmentation of the State’s tax and non-tax revenues by improving compliance, plugging leakages, rationalising tax rates, fees and exemptions, and identifying new and underutilised sources of revenue.The government that had already presented a white paper on the state’s finances said there was a need to align the growth of revenue in sync with the growth in the economy and to augment and sustain the resource base.The objective of the committee, the government…
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