CBDT

While our endeavour would be to promote voluntary compliance and provide a hassle-free service to the honest tax payers, we would also need to focus on non-filers and stop-filers in order in order to enhance the tax base and augment tax collection. We aim at achieving a tax regulation regimen in India which can match the best in the world. Full Article

The Directorate of Income Tax (PR , PP & OL) has produced a twelve episode quiz show on NDTV 24 x 7 called “Tax Your Brain” with a view to communicate with the school children and youth of the country on the “need for taxation in civil society”. The quiz show will feature 32 teams [...] Full Article

BBC World News Channel will telecast a story on Income Tax Collections in India at 11 am and 10 pm on Sunday, 9th of June, 2013, and at 6 am on Monday, 10th of June, 2013, as part of India Business Report Show. The story will also be telecast on Monday, 10th of June, 2013, [...] Full Article

CBDT has Vide Order No. 92 of 2013 dated 31.05.2013, ordered the transfer/ posting of several officers in the grade of Chief Commissioner of Income-tax (CIT) with immediate effect. CBDT has Vide Order No. 94 of 2013 dated 31.05.2013 ordered the transfer/ posting of several officers in the grade of Deputy Commissioner of Income-tax (DCIT) [...] Full Article

Income Tax Department Sent Letters to Another Batch of 35,000 Non-Filers; Government Once Again Urges all Tax Payers to Disclose Their True Income and Pay Appropriate Taxes As part of its ongoing initiative, the Income Tax Department has sent today i.e. 27th May, 2013 letters to another batch of 35,000 non-filers.  These persons were part [...] Full Article

Union Finance Minister to Inaugurate Today 29th Annual Conference of Chief Commissioners of Income Tax and Directors General of Income Tax 2013 The Union Finance Minister Shri P. Chidambaram will inaugurate the 29th Annual Conference of Chief Commissioners & Directors General of Income Tax here tomorrow. Two day Conference is being organised by the Central [...] Full Article

The Union Cabinet today approved the proposal for creation of 20,751 additional posts in the Income Tax Department in various cadres that is 1349 additional posts in the IRS cadre and 19,402 additional posts in the non-IRS cadres. This will help the Income Tax Department collect increased revenue and provide better tax payers services. Full Article

As a taxpayer, you may have some very legitimate grievances relating to your income-tax matters of settlement of your claims.  You may, for example, feel that the Income Tax Department owes you a certain refund of tax but it is not doing enough to hear your grievance of complaint nor taking action to redress it.  [...] Full Article

A fire broke out at the 6th floor of Aayakar Bhavan, Income-Tax office, at New Marine Lines on Thursday night. A source said that the fire broke out in staff room where several sensitive files stored.   Full Article

CBDT has made it mandatory for TDS deductors to issue PART A of from No. 16 for TDS deduction made on or After 01.04.2012 to by generating it through TRACES Portal and after duly authenticating and verifying it. Part B (Annexure)’ of Form No. 16 shall be prepared by the deductor manually and issued to [...] Full Article