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Goa plans integrated check-posts for plugging revenue leakage

Prakash Kamat

Proposal to bring down Government's cost of revenue collection

PANAJI: Goa Commercial Taxes (CTs) Department has mooted a plan for "integrated check-posts" with other departments in the near future, to ensure that a better compliance system for revenues is in place on the State's borders.

The proposal is meant to help curb leakage of taxes and other revenue even while considerably reducing the Government's cost of revenue collection on account of the present multiple check-post deployment.

Presently, the department has delegated the work to the Excise Department, but this is seen as a short-term solution. Various departments such as Forest, Police, Transport and Tourism apart from Excise have multiple check-posts, which have not only posed inconvenience to the free flow of traffic but have also been criticised for alleged rampant corruption and harassment to tourists among others.

Modern concept

Amit Yadav, Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, told The Hindu : "Integrated check-post monitoring is a more modern concept. It is already followed by progressive States such as Andhra Pradesh, Punjab, Rajasthan and it has been working miracles on their revenues."

He said that his department had put up the proposal as a concept paper as part of a Vision Plan for the next four to five years.

"We strongly feel that in a VAT regime when you have a destination-based tax, integrated check-post monitoring is inevitable. The plan envisages entry point plazas," he said.

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