The Hindu Business Line : Direct tax arrears

The Government apparently has plans of recovering direct tax arrears of Rs 7,000 crore by speeding up the settlement of around 400 cases alone. Further, reports indicate that officials in the commissionerates would be given non-monetary incentives to achieve the target. Do all these indicate the confidence of the Government or that justice or merits will be ignored while deciding some of these cases? The undisputed demand collections are a miserable 55 per cent of the total tax demand even after restructuring of the IT department in 2001-02.

Why doesn't the Government think of providing these incentives to tax recovery officers?

S. Sairam

Chennai

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