Sisodia awards winners of Bill Banvao Inam Pao scheme

The department of Trade and Taxes of the Delhi government on Wednesday awarded as many as 54 lucky winners under the ‘Bill Banvao Inam Pao’ scheme. The scheme was launched in January this year and this was the second phase of cheque distribution.

Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia handed over the cheques of Rs 4.5 lakhs to 54 lucky draw winners at the programme organised at Delhi Secretariat.

Awarding the winners, Sisodia thanked the people of Delhi for coming forward and uploading the bills of their purchases in a big way. “By uploading the bills, people have contributed immensely towards better tax collection and development of the city. The scheme has also been appreciated by the large section of traders who are doing business honestly as it has helped in creating equal opportunities in the market,” he said.

He further said with more and more tax evaders getting caught and prosecuted the malpractices are reducing benefiting honest traders. He appealed to the people of Delhi to come forward and join this movement against tax evasion by uploading each bill of their purchase.

Meanwhile, 224 traders, who were either allegedly manipulating the bills given to customers or not depositing the right amount of VAT to government, have been booked with the help of ‘Bill Banvao Inam Pao’ scheme, a senior official said. “The records of the dealers whose bills were uploaded by people in January, 224 dealers were found manipulating records by deleting the bills or showing reduced amount of bills in their record.

“The VAT department has taken a very serious view of such manipulators and is prosecuting all these 224 dealers in the court of law,” an official said. The official said that these dealers may face rigorous imprisonment up to 6 months and fine. Scrutiny of bills received in February 2016 is under process and more such dealers are likely to be detected.