Thiruvananthapuram: Tax receipt books, an integral component of tax acceptance and mutation proceedings at village offices in the state will soon be part of history.
Officials will no longer have to swift through stacks of crumbling dusty stacks for retrieval of files as a facility for online payment of land tax will be introduced at the village level by the first week of December.
QR Code
Quick Response (QR) code-based payments will be introduced for transactions to be made directly through village offices. A decision to roll out the new system was taken in view of the growing instances of fraudulent loan applications using forged receipts prepared with fake seals and fictitious names, informed the office of the revenue minister.
A fake receipt could be detected by scanning the unique QR code. A mobile application will also be introduced soon.
Making it simple
The existing online system to remit land taxes is not well rounded and fully developed. When the new facility comes into existence, the amount remitted directly at village offices would be transferred to the bank based on a computer-generated list. It will put an end to the practice of remitting money at treasuries every week.
In order to check whether the tax amount has reached the treasury from the bank, the Auto Bank Reconciliation option would be made available. The transaction could be verified through accounts system at taluk/collectorate levels. The demand collection balance report on the amount to be levied at the end of the month will also be generated online. The arduous physical task involved in the preparation of monthly report could be done with a single click.
The digitization of information of tax payers’ online, led by land revenue commissioner A. T James, is in the final stage, officials said.
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