indore the income tax departments indore region is planning to extend its search and survey to new areas and services to identify tax evaders the it department is forced to look for new avenues to identify tax evaders as the department has upped target by almost 30 at a time when big business are moving their corporate offices to indore the disclosure of undisclosed income to the tune of rs 2375 crore by four out of five hospitals clinics and medical shops can be just termed as a telltale of the departments more aggressive hunt on tax evaders in days to come sources said the reason behind the departments move is simple in a recent meeting held with the senior officials of income tax from across the country the union finance minister pranab mukherjee had increased the tax collection target by 30 for the current fiscal at rs 570000 crore when compared to the mark of earnings made by the department from income tax during the last fiscal in this connection the indore region of the department has been given a collection target of rs 1800 crore for the current fiscal as against the mark of rs 1380 crore which was collected by the region during the last fiscal interestingly it was happening at a time when the region has lost some of its big assesses in the corporate sector due to some reason or the other while the coal major bhatias and the soymeal czar ruchi group are under the process of shifting their corporate offices to mumbai the merger of state bank of indore with its parent organisation state bank of india are likely to hit the earning of the indore region of the department however the department is confident of achieving the target tax evasion in this region was going on at a high level here and the people have got a tendency not to file it return until surveys are being conducted by the department said surendra mishra chief commissioner of income tax indore region in an exclusive chat with toi it was evident from the fact that whichever area we go we find high level of tax evasion there he added while a sum of rs 230 crore was disclosed as undisclosed assets by the assesses during the fiscal 201011 the amount increased to rs 325 crore during the last fiscal ending march 31 2012 we have already got disclosures worth rs 70 crore during the current fiscal so far from the region said mishra giving the example of sarangpur falling under shajapur district of the indore region and having a population of merely 35000 mishra said that rs 6 crore was surrendered as undisclosed income by the assesses during our survey which was completed a fortnight ago first we want to increase compliance secondly we also want to encourage voluntary compliance by this way said mishrascrutiny of returns the modus operandi of the it department to find out tax evaders was simple the newdelhi