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Key People


Heads of Organisation
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Shri Prabhat Kumar Mishra, IAS
 Additional Chief Secretary
2214-3695
2214-1391
fs-wb@nic.in
Shri Devi Prasad Karanam, IAS
 Secretary
2253-5024
2214-4016

Major Revenue Source
The Directorate of Commercial Taxes is one of the major tax directorates. 60% of Tax Revenue is collected in the form of Commercial Tax. The Commercial Tax can be categorized into 3 items :
Commissioner of Commercial Tax

Dr. Uma Sankar S., IAS 		(a) Sales Tax (including the Cess) (b) Tax on Professionals and (c) Luxury Taxes. The Sales Tax Dealers act as agents in collecting the Sales Tax. The Sales tax is passed on to the consumers by the Dealers, by including the Sales Tax in the commodity price. The registered dealers deposit the consolidated Sales Tax amount payable by them, into the Treasury, on an annual basis. The Professional Tax is deducted from the salaries of the professionals by their Employers. It is a direct tax and the Employers are responsible for payment of this tax. The Luxury Tax is collected from the stockists and the final consumers are not charged directly. Stockists of certain commodities, which have been marked as Luxury items, are to pay this tax to the Treasuries. The estimated receipt as Sales Tax & VAT is Rs. 12257.73 Crores during fiscal year 2010-2011.
Inspector General of Registration & Commissioner of Stamp Revenue

Sh. Pawan Kadyan, IAS 		The Directorate of Registration and Stamp Revenue deals with (a) Registration of documents such as Deeds of sale, lease, gift, Partition Deeds, Power of Attorney, etc. (b) Collection of related fees, i.e. Stamp Duty & Registration Fees (c) Assessing the market value of the property concerned and (d) Ensuring that Stamp Duty at proper rate is collected and deposited. The main function of the Directorate of Registration and Stamp Revenue is to legalize different contractual documents by empowering them through Court of Law. The Directorate aims at protecting the rights of public by legalizing the different deeds and keeping records of the same. The estimated receipt as Tax on Stamp Duty & Registration Fees is Rs. 1800.52 Crores during fiscal year 2010-2011.
Commissioner of Excise Directorate

Sh. Kaushik Bhattacharya, IAS 		Excise Directorate is one of the major revenue earning sources for the Government of West Bengal. The estimated receipt as Excise Revenue is Rs. 1759.78 Crores during fiscal year 2010-2011 as compared to Rs. 1082.95 Crores it earned in 2008-2009. The operations of the Excise Directorate centre around the enforcement of regulations relating to the manufacture, production, possession, distribution, transport, supply, selling and buying of liquor and other intoxicants. The Directorate strives to achieve the twin needs of preventing the manufacture, supply and distribution of illicit/counterfeit/spurious liquor and/.or non-duty paid intoxicants and attaining the full realizable revenue potential of the State since prohibition is not a viable option.