Bareilly: Four cable operators have been served recovery certificates (RC) of Rs 8 lakh after failing to deposit entertainment tax till June 30.“Of 140 total cable operators, 25 are yet to deposit tax amount of Rs 15 lakh accumulated till June 30. All 25 cable operators have been issued notice last week following that 20 of them have deposited partial amount of their outstanding tax but four didn’t pay heed to our notice. Now, the additional district magistrate has issued recovery certificates to them on Tuesday,” Pankaj Gupta, assistant commissioner of entertainment department.According to the department sources, they had been collecting the entertainment tax before the new regime of GST commenced on July 1. From cinema hall owners, the tax was collected on weekly basis while cable TV operators used to deposit tax amount on monthly basis.Gupta said, “Those operators, who were issued RC, are defaulters who didn’t deposit tax since 2015. In some cases, outstanding tax amount for several months was due on such operators who have deposited the tax after missing the deadline, however, they didn’t pay the interest on that.”He explained that for instance a cable operator who pays tax tuned to Rs 40,000 per month remained fail to deposit tax for three months, interest at the rate of 10% per annum will also be added in the outstanding dues. Some operator had cleared the tax amount but didn’t pay the interest amount, what made them defaulter.

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