PESHAWAR, Sept 24: The NWFP government ended up with total recoveries of about Rs163 million under the head of mutation fee, missing the annual target for the financial year 2001-02 with a considerable margin, according to official sources.

The province collected about Rs37 million less than the amount it planned to raise under this important head of provincial own receipts.

The government had anticipated to raise Rs200 million during the financial year 2001-02, against which an amount of slightly over Rs163 million was received through mutation fee.

Authorities concerned said the mutation fee target had apparently been set on the higher side. However, the provincial finance managers were so certain about meeting the Rs200 million target which they did not revised downward as had been done in the cases of several other heads of provincial own receipts, including agriculture income tax, urban immovable property tax, cess on tobacco and goods and a couple of more heads.

The revised budgetary estimates of the provincial receipts for the financial year 2001-02 — reflected under the provincial government’s current financial year budget documents — do not project any change in the mutation fee’s target for the last financial year.

Apart from failing to meet the revenue receipts target under the mutation fee head, the provincial tax collection machinery also could not raise the amount under the registration fee head.

For the last financial year, the government had set a target of Rs10 million under the registration fee head. The revised budgetary estimates also reflected the target under this head at the same level.

However, against that the province ended up with total collections of Rs8.7 million under this head missing the target by over Rs1 million.

Sources said that being a transaction based receipts head, proceeds under this head could well be more than the target or less than the target depending upon the transaction.