NEW DELHI, Sept 21:
In a tax-payer friendly move, the revenue department has directed its officials to fix meetings with assessees in such a manner so that they do not have to wait.
As per the current practice, tax officials call assesses for meetings at one time and they have to wait for long hours for their turn.
“We issued clear instructions that the time should be so fixed that tax payer and assessee when called for whatever reason, for adjudication/hearing, he should not be made to wait unnecessarily and for timing between two meetings there should be adequate spacing,” a top revenue department official said.
There are about 3.7 crore tax payers, while the officials from Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) are able to scrutinise only one per cent of the returns. So roughly about 3-3.5 lakh returns are being scrutinised.
The initiative form part of the exercise to make the tax administration non-adversarial and tax payer friendly.
Revenue Secretary Shaktikanta Das had recently said the department’s key objective is to foster non-adversarial tax administration and towards this has tried to reduce the interface between the tax officials and assessee. (PTI)
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