Uttar Pradesh’s non-tax revenue collection dips in 2019-20

LUCKNOW: Tax and non-tax revenue receipts of the state government, till December 2019 of the FY 2019-20, a copy of which is with TOI, show that while it did relatively better in tax revenue side, it’s the non-tax revenue is alarming.
The budget expenditure for FY 2019-20 was Rs 4,79,701 crore.
However, with two supplementary budgets, the size of the budget has increased to nearly Rs 4,97,506 crore, necessitating greater revenue mobilisation by the state government.
Both in comparison to last FY 2018-19 and the overall performance of this financial year till the last quarter in December, non- tax revenue collection has been dismal.
In respect of tax revenue, the target for FY 2019-20 was Rs 1,40258 crore while till December 2019 it achieved Rs 93,331 crore, which is 66 .5 per cent of the total target.
For the FY 2019-20, the target under this head was Rs 16,756 crore.
However, till December last, it achieved only Rs 5701 crore, clocking just 34.7 per cent of the total target.
The cumulative achievement against the target till December was only 46.4 per cent.
In the non-tax revenue side, revenue collection was better last year, as by December 2018, it was 58.5 per cent while this year till December 2019 it was around 34.3 per cent.
“If the state government is unable to cover its shortfalls in revenue receipts in the remaining months of the current financial year, this would entail a serious financial crunch,” said economist Rajeshwar Tyagi.
Non-tax revenue largely comprises taxes recovered from general public as fee by the state machinery. Non-tax revenue mainly includes mining, irrigation, forest and wildlife, police, PWD (from state roads and bridges), housing and labour and employment.
Taxes from mining stagnated as 33.2 per cent of the total target of Rs 4,400 crore, irrigation 37.8 per cent, PWD 33.6 per cent and crop and other agriculture activities 39.2 per cent.
The total target under this non tax revenue head was Rs 16,766 crore while the achievement of the target is just 34 per cent which is 39.6 per cent less as compared to the target of FY 2018-19.
However, in the tax revenue side, the performance of the government is relatively better.
Under the excise head, the collection is 61.8 per cent, stamp and registration 63.7, transport 67.3, and other revenue receipts are also showing an impressive recovery by 75.3 per cent.
Under the tax revenue, the total target was Rs 1,40,258.59 crore and the recovery till December end has been Rs 93,331.95 crore with an average achievement of Rs 66 .5 per cent which is on the higher side by 4. 8 per cent this year.
In the tax revenue side, collection has been good, barring land revenue which clocked a shortfall and achieved just 39.7 per cent, which is less compared to the last year.