Banks to remain open on March 29-31 for Tax collection
NEW DELHI, MARCH 19: Bank branches will remain open for full day on March 29, 30 and 31 to facilitate tax collection.While
March 29 is a Saturday, March 30 is Sunday and March 31 is the last
year of financial year and is a public holiday in some parts of the
country.
“The Chairperson,
Central Board of Excise and Customs has requested the Secretary
Financial Services to issue instructions to have the banks open for full
day on 29th, 30th and 31st March 2014 so that the efforts made for
collections of revenue are reflected appropriately,” an office
memorandum said.
Bulk of the revenue is
received at the end of the month, it said, adding banks need to
facilitate electronic tax payment by assessees.
In the 2014 interim
budget, the Government has lowered the indirect tax collection target
for the current fiscal by Rs 45,483 crore to over Rs 5.19 lakh crore.
Of this, over Rs 1.75
lakh crore and Rs 1.79 lakh crore is to be mobilised from customs and
excise duty collection and about Rs 1.65 lakh crore from service tax.
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