The Union Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley inaugurated the Non Tax Receipt Portal (NTRP), developed by the Office of Controller General of Accounts (CGA). The portal provides a one-stop platform to citizens /corporates/other users for making online payment of Non-Tax Receipts to Government of India. The annual collection of Non Tax Receipts is over Rs. 2 lakh crores. It was launched as part of Union Government’s flagship Digital India campaign. Currently, non-tax revenues are collected by physical instruments such as bank draft or cheque or cash. This portal will reduce manual work to a great extent.

While direct and indirect taxes are largely collected using the e-payment mode, Non-tax revenues (NTR) flow mainly through physical instruments such as bank draft/cheque/cash. The Non Tax Receipt Portal fills this vacuum and provides an end to end solution for complete value chain of non-tax receipts, including online user interface, payment at the Payment Gateway Aggregator and reconciliation and accounting of receipts by Government Departments/Ministries.

Points to Note

• A depositor can make online payment to the Government using either a Credit Card, a Debit Card or through Net Banking with the Payment Gateway Aggregator (PGA).
• At present, SBI e-Pay is the PGA for NTRP.
• This is an important initiative taken by Controller General of Accounts, Department of Expenditure, Ministry of Finance under the Digital India campaign.