(A) Work Jurisdiction of CIT (J) The CIT (J) shall be the nodal office for all matters, including but not limited to those mentioned in Part (C) below, relating to the jurisdictional High Court as also co-ordination with counterparts for other High Court/s. He shall be responsible for ensuring that the Departmental view regarding the interpretation of the Income-tax Act, 1961 is enforced uniformly and coherently within the jurisdiction of the respective Region.
Kind reference is invited to the deliberations during the 31st Annual Conference of Pr. Chief Commissioners of Income Tax/Chief Commissioners of Income Tax and Pr. Directors General of Income-tax/ Directors General of Income-tax held on 25th & 26th May 2015 and this Division communication in this regard dated 12.06.2015.
Instruction No. 05/2015 Clerkage at the rate of l0 per cent of the appearance and drafting fee shall be payable to the Counsel, subject to a maximum of Rs. 4,375/-, in a case or a batch of cases’. Instruction No. 05/2015 Dated- 23rd June, 2015
Letter F.No. 275/65/2013-CX.8A dated 19.06.2015 regarding Procedural Clarification in respect of the issues relating to the ‘authorization’ of the Commissioners to represent the Union Of India and Others in matters before the High Court.
CBDT has lately noticed that terms of Instruction No. 20/2003, dated 23.12.2003(copy enclosed) on the subject mentioned above are not being adhered to. The operative part of the Instruction is reproduced below for ready reference;
Letter F.No. 275/72/2014-CX.8A dated 19.06.2015 regarding Creating Awareness of the provisions relating to Settlement of Cases through Settlement Commission, by informing the noticee about the said provisions by a follow up letter after issuance of Show Cause Notice
In stations having more than one CCIT, the decision to file an appeal before the High Court will be taken by two CCsIT including the CCIT in whose jurisdiction the matter lies. The Principal CCIT concerned may issue directions for pairing of CCsIT for this purpose. In case of disagreement between the two CCsIT, the matter will be referred to the Principal CCIT.
During the Board Meeting held on 20thAugust, 2014 (BMB No.18/2014), CBEC had decided to build a Management Information System (MIS) for CBEC so that various critical information relating to key result areas are collected in a reliable, efficient and useful manner. The Board had accepted the proposal to build the MIS in a phased manner as per the detailed roadmap recommended by the Working Group constituted for this purpose.
Some CCA Regions have sought a clarification, whether the Steno quota for promotion to Income Tax Inspector (ITI) which remains unfilled in a particular year, gets merged into a common pool of ITl vacancies for the next vacancy year and is redistributed in the prescribed ratio of 3:1 among Ministerial and steno cadres or, remains earmarked forever for filling up by Steno cadres only.
The income Tax Business Application (ITBA) is planned to be launched shortly and the CIT(A) module is amongst the first modules to be rolled out. This would enable the office of CIT(A) to work on the ITBA system. The CIT(A) module is expected to enhance the efficiency of the CsIT(A) in terms of the ease in handling the appeal workload and its disposal and the automatic generation of MIS for reporting and for control of work.
