*Inaugurates IT office at Katra
Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 4: In a goodwill gesture, Principal Commissioner of Income Tax, J&K Circle, Sangeeta Gupta today offered free services to the senior citizens in filing Income Tax returns.
She made announcement in this regard during an awareness programme on benefits available to the public in general and senior citizens in particular in respect of Income Tax organized by the Retired Officers Forum.
Responding to the issues highlighted by the Forum, Sangeeta Gupta cleared their doubts about the notices which are being issued by the Income Tax Department. “Every care is being taken so that no innocent person is unnecessarily harnessed”, she said while announcing free services for the senior citizens in filing Income Tax returns, adding “Chartered Accountants have shown their willingness to extend their services for guiding such persons without charging any fee from them”.
She also explained various provisions of the Income Tax Act which would be very helpful to them while calculating the income tax. The members of the Association appreciated the Income Tax Department for generating awareness among the people by conducting various seminars in different parts of the State.
Meanwhile, Principal Commissioner of Income Tax inaugurated new office of the department at Katra in order to provide services of the department to the people at their door-step.
The function was attended by M Kumar, Additional CEO, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, SP Sumir Kotwal, Rakesh Gupta, President Chamber of Commerce, Yash Pal Gupta, President Retailer Traders Federation, Jammu, KVK Singh, Additional CIT and other officers of the IT Department.
It is pertinent to mention here that after a long gap of more than six years, Income Tax Department has established a new office. It was noticed that the tax payers of the district Reasi had to travel long way either to Udhampur or Jammu for their work related to income tax matters as such the department decided to provide services at their door steps.
“This office will not only mitigate the grievance of the tax payers but would also serve as a good liaison between the tax payers and the Income Tax Department”, Sangeeta Gupta said while speaking on the occasion.
Prior to the inauguration function, the meeting was held in the conference hall of the DC Reasi, which was also attended by Additional DC Reasi Shiv Kumar Gupta and other prominent citizens of the town and also a large number of local tax payers.
It was pointed out by the Principal Commissioner of Income Tax that main purpose to hold such awareness camp is only to spread the message of widening of tax base and filing of tax returns by different categories of the people. The Principal Commissioner of Income Tax also pointed out that at present the tax can be deposited online at any place and there is no requirement to visit the bank branch for deposit of tax.
“The department is already seized of the matter that none of the bank branches at Reasi is authorized to receive the Income tax and as such, matter has already been taken up with the RBI to declare any of the bank branch as nodal branch for receipt of income tax”, she added.
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