As it is well known that the income tax department has allowed Aadhaar card holders to use the biometric id number in lieu of the Permanent Account Number (PAN). But as per new provision of Income Tax, fine of Rs. 10,000 may be levied in case of wrong Aadhar Number. As per the latest amendments in the Finance Bill 2019, not only allowed people to use Aadhaar in lieu of PAN but also introduced a penalty for giving a false Aadhaar number. However, the new penalty rules are applicable only in cases where you are using Aadhaar in lieu of PAN and where quoting PAN is mandatory according to the income tax department rules. It is well known that although Aadhaar is issued by the Unique Identity Authority of India, yet the fine is not imposed by UIDAI but by the income tax department. Under Section 272B of the Income Tax Act, 1961, the department can impose a penalty in case of default in complying with provisions relating to PAN, i.e., failure to obtain, quote, or authenticate PAN.
AS OF today, there are 536 additional
commissioner posts lie vacant in the income-tax department. At present, these
are being manned on an ad-hoc basis. The future looks even bleaker, IT
department top officials told Financial Chronicle.
A detailed calculation made by income-tax Gazetted
Officers’ Association shows that the networking strength of assistant
commissioner of income-tax (ACIT) will go down from ,542 at present to only 960
after the new cadre restructuring proposals take effect.
The total vacancies in the grade of ACIT will
rise from 550 at present to 1,954. The majority of these vacancies will remain
unfilled for the next three to five years. Even after five years, at least 600 posts of
ACIT will remain vacant, Mrinal Kanti Chanda, president, incometax Gazetted
Officers’ Association, told FC. A cadre review had been conducted by the CBDT
in 2009 to address the lacuna in services and tax enforcement, and made several
recommendations. After four years, the Union cabinet approved a cadre
restructuring.
On May 31 this year, the central board of direct taxes (CBDT)
notified that the Union cabinet had approved additional manpower for the income-tax
department with an expenditure of Rs 450 crore. It was also claimed that the
services of the additional manpower would yield additional collection of
revenue of Rs 25,000 crore per annum (over and above the present tax
collections). Besides, high net-worth individuals will be brought under closer
scrutiny. Above all, it has been claimed that it will lead to better services to
individual and corporate taxpayers. “However, the proposed restructuring has
been limited to mere addition of manpower, mostly in the highest levels only.
The existing structure carries unfilled vacancies year after year. The problem
cannot be solved by creating additional posts, which will only add to that
shortfall, but by devising methods of filling these unfilled vacancies by
direct recruitment or by promotions from lower grades. The department do not
need new posts as much as it needs strategies to
fill up these posts,” said Bhaskar Bhattacharya, general secretary of the
association.
ritwikmukherjee
@mydigitalfcSource: http://www.itgoa.org/files/News%20Item%20in%20Financial%20Chronicle.pdf
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