Excise Department Gets Increased Tax Collection Targets

Shakeel Qureshi

The state government is all set to give revised and increased target to Excise and Taxation department for the financial year 2017-18. According to sources, the department will get more than Rs. 6700 crore of target for the next financial year. However, it will not be much difficult for excise and taxation department to achieve this target, because GST will be implemented after July in the country and then the union government will compensate for the loss of the revenue of the state government. Besides this, there is a hope of additional help to special category states. Therefore, it will not be much difficult for excise and taxation department to collect more than Rs. 6700 crore of revenue. The department this year until now have already collected Rs. 5400 crore of revenue. However, the department was given a target to collect Rs. 6400 crore of revenue, but department is hopeful to achieve the target numbers by March end. The department is yet to collect tax of January, February and March months and besides this others factors to add to the tax collection of the department. It was therefore expected that the target of department will be increased in upcoming financial year so as to strengthen the economy of hill state. The excise department is now fully connected to e-services making tax filings easier for businessmen and department too. It is also helping to keep a check on tax evaders. The state government is expecting to collect more revenue after implementation of GST, but for now, the target for the department is set at Rs. 6700 crores.

Excise Officials Learning Intricacies Of GST

Many officials from the excise department has gone for training related to GST at Raipur. They are being introduced to the intricacies of GST there. These officials will further train other employees of the state after undergoing through training.

 Bedi Travels Participated In India’s Biggest Travel Trade Fair

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Bedi Travels from Dharamshala with an aim to grab maximum of tourism to hill state marked its presence in Outbound Travel Mart (OTM), India’s biggest travel trade show. OTM is organised every year in the largest travel market in India – Mumbai. This year the travel trade show held from February 21 – 23, 2017 at Bombay Exhibition Centre in Mumbai. Notably, over 10,000 trade visitors from around 50 countries make to the OTM, Mumbai each year. National / regional tourist organisations, state government tourism departments, tour operators, travel agents, hotels / hotel chains, resorts, destination management companies, adventure tourism, airlines, car rentals, railways, coach operators, cruise lines, amusement / theme parks, technology and communication, information / reservation systems, insurance, foreign exchange, banks, incentive travel destinations, conference venues, publications, guides participate in the event and promote the tourism potential in their areas.

P&G Launches New Tide Plus

Chandigarh: Tide Plus, one of the leading fabric care brands in India from P&G, has introduced the new and improved Tide Plus. The new version of India’s popular detergent brand has undergone a formulation upgrade, leading to a superior and better performance. Leading actresses Drashti Dhami, Mouni Roy, Namrata Shirodkar and Jasmin Bhasin went on a cross country tour to launch the new and improved Tide Plus across Big Bazaar and Hypercity stores, and spoke about Tide’s latest campaign #CollarUpWithTide. The campaign is a funny take on the perils of hanging your collar to prevent dirtying it, and how with the new best-ever Tide, you can pop up your whitest collar in pride. They encouraged homemakers across India to join the campaign and go for #CollarUpWithTide.  Talking more about the campaign, Priyanka Goyal, Brand Manager of P&G India Fabric Care said, “Tide has always stood for surprising whiteness while adding a bit of humour to the laundry chores. Staying true to this, the new product formulation aims at delighting the consumer in ways like never before – an even superior product, for superior whiteness, improving the overall laundry experience.” The new and improved Tide Plus is priced at Rs. 49 for 500 grams and Rs. 96 for 1 kg pack.

TVS Wego Scooter Available In Two New Colours

Chandigarh:  India’s leading two wheeler manufacturer TVS Motor Company has launched two new colours (Metallic Orange and T-Grey) for its popular TVS Wego scooter. The refreshed Wego models now get a BSIV compliant 110 cc CVTI engine and additional features like a dual tone seat cover, silver oak panels and a USB charging port. The 2 new colours will be offered across the entire TVS Wego product range. The all new TVS Wego gets the AHO feature as well. AHO meaning Automatic Headlight On, where in the scooter’s headlight will be on whenever scooter is on and there will be no way you can turn it off. Priced at Rs. 50,434 (ex-showroom Delhi), The refreshed range of TVS Wego will be available at select TVS Motor Company showrooms across the country.

Tata Global Beverages Launches New Range Of Green Tea

Chandigarh: Tata Global Beverages launched a new range of Tetley Super Green Teas under their Tetley portfolio. It is a first-of-its-kind vitamin-enhanced range of Super Green Teas as the latest addition to the company’s green tea portfolio. The Tetley Super Green range consists of Tetley Super Green Boost — a combination of lime and mint green tea with vitamin B6 to help reduce tiredness and fatigue and Tetley Super Green Immune — which is a combination of citrus and honey green tea with Vitamin C, to help support the immune system. Sushant Dash, regional president — India, Tata Global Beverages said, “At Tata Global Beverages, the consumer is at the heart of everything we do and Tetley Super Green stands true to this testament.”

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