DTO, Nagaon urges tax defaulters to pay their taxes

A CORRESPONDENT

NAGAON: Sunit Bora, DTO, Nagaon on Friday urged to all owners of commercial as well as private vehicles of the district to pay their respective taxes and other outstanding arrear taxes as early as possible to get exemption from further penalties and other lawful action in this regard. While speaking to this correspondent here, DTO, Nagaon Sunit Bora said that the department concerned had already given chances to the tax defaulters of the district to protect themselves from strict measures being initiated by the department concerned.

"We have already issued official demand notices against several thousand such tax defaulters in the district and among those defaulters there are many construction companies like TK Engineering and other contractors who are yet to pay over crore of rupees as tax dues and arrear taxes," DTO Bora said, adding that the enforcement officials from the department concerned initiated drives against them across the district.

"Our enforcement teams will go for door-to-door visits and will seize their vehicles of the tax defaulters on the spot soon and the vehicles which have been seized, but have not been deposited amount of penalties till date, will be auctioned soon," DTO Bora asserted further.

Referring to the targeted revenue for the current fiscal year, he said that the department gave a target of Rs 69.5 crore to DTO, Nagaon and the district transport department was trying its best to fulfil the requirement till date.