Critical steps to complete time barring work u/s 143(3), 147, 153 A/C on 31.12.2018

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DIRECTORATE OF INCOME TAX (SYSTEM)

ARA Center, Ground Floor, E-2, Jhandewalan Extension,

New Delhi – 110055

F.No. System/ITBA/Assessment

Dated: 31.12.2018

To

All Principal Chief Commissioners of Income-tax/CCsIT

All Principal Director Generals of Income Tax /DGsIT

All Principal Commissioners of Income-tax/CsIT/CsIT(Admin & TPS)

All Principal Directors of Income Tax/DsIT

Madam/Sir,

Subject: Critical steps to complete time barring work u/s 143(3), 147, 153 A/C on the 31^st Dec 2018–Regarding

We are in the final phase of completion of the time barring work u/s 143(3), 147, 153 A/C before the midnight of 31^st Dec 2018. Please find attached the latest position in MIS as available on system. At this critical juncture it is pertinent to draw attention to some critical tasks which must be completed by Assessing Officers (AO) by 4 pm today to avoid any last minute glitches in passing of orders in all the time barring cases as under:

i. In all pending time barring cases u/s 143(3), 147, 153 A/C, where owing to a technical glitch AO is unable to complete order passing in ITBA/ITD or in case of AY 2017-18 cases then he must immediately proceed to pass the order offline and ensure physical service to assessee. After completing Manual order passing, the efforts to upload the order in systems can then be resumed. This is important to note the statutory responsibility of completing the Time-Barring assessment order has to be complied with by the AO.

ii. Wherever there are assessment orders pending for digital signature in the AO dispatch register, he may be directed to digitally sign these immediately. Similarly in respect of all orders which are generated today during the course of the day, AO should choose the option to digitally sign now. Please note that the documents will be shared in e-proceedings for service as and when they are digitally signed or after 4 pm, the unsigned Orders/notices will be dispatched.

iii. Please note that wherever proceedings in which time limit has been extended or draft order u/s 144 C has been issued through system, then even if the TB date continues to be displayed as 31/12/18 as the exact extension period is indeterminate at this point of time, the actual date stands extended and the work item will remain enabled even beyond 31/12/18 for completion of proceedings. Such items will be excluded from the time barring list for MIS purposes. Similarly duplicate workitems will also be excluded from time barring list for now and would close as and when the order is passed in original proceeding/selection at a future date

2. It may be noted that the MIS provided by Systems Directorate may not reflect the exact position at any given time, since the MIS reports are generated at scheduled intervals. Hence, the exact position as on 31^stDec 2018 will be known to the AO only.

3. In all these endeavors to liquidate time barring pendency, the Directorate of Systems will continue to facilitate disposal in an expeditious manner.Assessing Officers are advised to contact helpdesk in case of any issues in respect of the ITBA.

a. URL of helpdesk – http://itbahelpdesk.incometax.net

b. Help desk number – 0120-2811200

c. Email ID – helpdesk [email protected]

d. Help desk Timings – 8.30 A.M. – 7.30 P.M. (Monday to Friday)

4. It is requested that these critical issues may be brought to the notice of the Assessing officers and their hierarchy for immediate compliance so as to enable them to complete all time barring work by 4 pm.

5. This is issued with prior approval of Pr DGIT(Systems).

Yours sincerely,

(Rameh Krishnamurthi)
Addl.DG(Sysstems)-3, New Delhi

Copy to:

i. The P.P.S to Chairman, Member(L), Member(Inv.), Member(IT&C), Member(Rev.), Member(A&J) & Member(P&V),CBDT for information.

ii. The Web Manager, of irsofficersonline.gov.inwebsite with the request to upload the Instruction.

iii. ITBA Publisher ([email protected]) for https://itba.incometax.gov.in  with the request to upload the Instruction on the ITBA Portal.

(Ramesh Krishnamurthi)
Addl.DG(Systems)-3, New Delhi

Region (as on 30th Dec 2018)	All 143 TB Cases	Orders Passed in ITBA as on 30th Dec 2018	Order Passe d in ITD	Manu al Order	Cases Abate d	Cases Extend ed	Manual Order uploaded- Pending in System	All Orders Passed Dropped Extended	Pende ncy	% Pende ncy
01-ANDHRA PRADESH AND TELENGANA	11,849	11,222	173	200	12	181	7	11,795	54	0%
02-BIHAR AND JHARKHAND	3,589	3,492	32	22	3	6		3,555	34	1%
03-DELHI	17,079	15,712	299	94	39	608	12	16,764	315	2%
04-GUJARAT	18,681	18,151	224	31	22	196	2	18,626	55	0%
05-KARNATAKA AND GOA	14,561	13,462	267	168	23	505	18	14,443	118	1%
06-KERALA	5,365	5,177	75	34	1	38		5,325	40	1%
07-MADHYA PRADESH AND CHATTISGARH	6,776	6,557	117	33	13	48	1	6,769	7	0%
08-MUMBAI	27,203	25,659	500	35	25	677	3	26,899	304	1%
09-NAGPUR	2,684	2,623	34	12	2	10		2,681	3	0%
10-NORTH EAST REGION	2,393	2,162	54	79	36	17	14	2,362	31	1%
11-NORTH WEST REGION	12,108	11,431	216	145	8	199	3	12,002	106	1%
12-ODISHA	1,695	1,605	18	41		9	2	1,675	20	1%
13-PUNE	14,228	13,571	186	47	9	261	5	14,079	149	1%
14-RAJASTHAN	6,406	6,262	68	17	4	49		6,400	6	0%
15-TAMIL NADU	13,802	12,962	153	221	5	349	3	13,693	109	1%
16-UTTAR PRADESH (EAST)	4,249	4,158	24	17	6	21	2	4,228	21	0%
17-UTTAR PRADESH (WEST)	6,150	5,924	70	77	10	36	2	6,119	31	1%
18-WEST BENGAL AND SIKKIM	10,585	10,225	118	41	16	131	1	10,532	53	1%
19-PCCIT INTL.TAX, DELHI	6,355	4,721	136	30		1059		5,946	409	6%
20-Central	9,257	4,615	633	828	927	165	144	7,312	1,945	21%
21-Exemption	26,880	26,141	399	221	1	28	8	26,798	82	0%
Grand Total	2,21,895	2,05,832	3,796	2,393	1,162	4,593	227	2,18,003	3,892	2%

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Region (as on 30th Dec 2018)	All 147 Cases	Order Passed	Droppe d	TB Date Extended	Manual Upload in ITBA	Manual Order Uploaded-Pending with System	Pendency	% Pending
01-ANDHRA PRADESH AND TELENGANA	4,272	3,820	125	68	67	50	142	3%
02-BIHAR AND JHARKHAND	2,597	2,377	80	3	14	19	104	4%
03-DELHI	21,073	18,747	1,189	34	117	107	879	4%
04-GUJARAT	27,292	25,751	1,032	91	206	4	208	1%
05-KARNATAKA AND GOA	3,319	2,732	137	235	77	48	90	3%
06-KERALA	1,421	1,320	39	8	3	1	50	4%
07-MADHYA PRADESH AND CHATTISGARH	22,658	21,243	1,258	32	21	2	102	0%
08-MUMBAI	21,863	19,959	1,365	49	96	43	351	2%
09-NAGPUR	1,473	1,385	61		5		22	1%
10-NORTH EAST REGION	1,177	1,147	17	4	3	2	4	0%
11-NORTH WEST REGION	31,966	29,134	2,303	26	151	38	314	1%
12-ODISHA	1,020	964	16	1	4		35	3%
13-PUNE	16,329	15,175	680	58	106	25	285	2%
14-RAJASTHAN	12,121	11,793	269	11	17	3	28	0%
15-TAMIL NADU	17,973	12,498	1,415	1,108	32	29	2,891	16%
16-UTTAR PRADESH (EAST)	3,588	3,445	101	6	11		25	1%
17-UTTAR PRADESH (WEST)	8,065	6,938	806	9	132	15	165	2%
18-WEST BENGAL AND SIKKIM	13,513	12,965	206	45	31	8	258	2%
19-PCCIT INTL.TAX, DELHI	3,477	2,420	610	44	29	10	364	10%
20-Central	2,962	1,698	243	17	95	28	881	30%
21-Exemption	2,775	2,404	236	12	37	11	75	3%
Grand Total	2,20,934	1,97,915	12,188	1,861	1,254	443	7,273	3%