The government has introduced online challan verification mechanism to help check submission of fake treasury chalans.
The Office of the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) has developed an online platform through introduction of a new tab in its website to facilitate the procedure.
People have to pay taxes or different fees to government exchequer through treasury challan for obtaining services.
Now, the government agencies that collect different taxes and fees from people through Bangladesh Bank and Sonali Bank using the treasury challan can verify authenticity of the challan by visiting www.cga.goc.bd.
The new mechanism is expected to resolve mismatches in accounts data between the government agencies, combat revenue evasion and reduce both time and hassles, said officials concerned.
The finance ministry, through a circular issued on September 16, instructed all the government agencies concerned to verify all treasury challans online using the new mechanism in the website.
The manual verification system was also annulled with introduction of online platform, the circular read.