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Mr Palanimanickam noted that the Department’s efficiency had to be benchmarked by the satisfaction level of the users. He highlighted that a major source of dissatisfaction of income-tax assessees is with respect to refund of taxes. “The time taken to grant refunds is very high when compared to international standards,” the Minister said, adding that the department should set up a task force to revamp the system of tax refunds.
This year, claiming a full income tax (I-T) refund could take longer than you expect if the amount mentioned in your return does not match that in the department’s system. Bitten by a Rs 14-crore refund scam in December last year, I-T authorities have ordered that an assessee can only get the refund amount shown in the department’s computer system, and that if the assessee claims more than that, he or she can only get it after filing for rectification and submitting the relevant documents.
Alarmed by the initial findings of its departmental inquiry, the income-tax (I-T ) department has moved the Central Bureau of Investigations (CBI) to probe the ‘tax return scam.’ The hand of several I-T officials working in tandem with some rogue tax agents is suspected in the scam to siphon off refunds.
The income tax department has launched a drive to file corrected returns with a view to do away with the problem of held-up refunds and the tax already paid not being credited to the assessees’ name. A large number of people whose tax is deducted at source did not get the payments credited which, in turn, held up refunds.
Continuous rise in pendency of refund claims cost the exchequer interest of a whopping Rs 5,785 crore during 2008-09, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India said today.
The income-tax department that faced flak from many quarters for late payment or non-payment of tax refunds, has been now asked to beef up its automation that does not seem to have helped much for the pending refund claims that could take even four years to be processed.
Taxpayers can expect faster refunds from the I-T department this year as the ambitious centralised processing centre of the department will start functioning to full capacity.The Bangalore based processing centre of the income tax department has been adding to its technical strength over the months and will include all I-T returns and generate subsequent refunds from across the country in a seamless manner by start of April, a senior tax official said.
A. Reasons for mistakes in calculation of Income:- The accurate and complete filling up of the relevant column or detail in the Income Tax Return (ITR) form is most crucial for correct calculation of income by the Income Tax Department. As a general principle during processing, in case of any inconsistency between the values as entered in the Schedules and the cross-referenced values in other Schedules or Totals / Summary in PART B-TI,
“Total number of pending refund returns (up to January 2010 is 49 lakh. The statutory time limit to process the return and issue refund in financial year 2009-10 is March, 31, 2011,” minister of state for finance SS Palanimanickam informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply.
We have heard the arguments put forth by both the sides along with the case law relied upon. Having held above that the interest on income-tax refund does not fall under the head `Profits and gains of business or profession’, it remains to be examined as to whether deduction u/s.80P is restricted only to the income falling under this head
