Revenue department identifies people who have ignored notices calling for enquiry and verification of tax returns.
With the appeals process going faceless from September onwards, there are no jurisdictions for the Commissioner of I-T (Appeals), or CIT(A), to approve the withdrawal request
Personal income tax saw contraction shrink to 13 per cent by November from 22 per cent seen up to September, on the back of lower issuance of refunds and improvement in economic conditions
But a higher rate will be levied if PAN isn't furnished
The suggestions are part of a paper titled 'Force', which stands for 'Fiscal Options & Response to the COVID-19 Epidemic'
Once the revised forms are notified, it will further necessitate the consequential changes in the software and return filing utility
Collection goal of Rs 9.32 trn under Vivad Se Vishwas seems a tall order, given that the most successful scheme so far has yielded just about 3% of that amount
Ajit Ranade, chief economist at Aditya Birla Group, said, "I don't think a cut in the personal income tax is a good thing to do at this juncture."
Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey had a video conference meeting with top tax officials and impressed upon them to step up measures to achieve direct and indirect tax collection target.
The government last fiscal missed its direct tax collection target, and for this financial year it has set a higher revenue mobilisation goal of Rs 13.80 trillion
Direct tax collection needs to grow by about 27% from here on to meet FY20 Budget target
Of the Rs 5.50 trillion collections, advance tax rose a tepid 7.3 per cent to Rs 2.20 trillion from Rs 2.05 crore, sources said
Sitharaman, however, was confident that the target would be achieved without any harassment to taxpayers
Blaming tax officials will not help us get to the root of the issue. The problem is government itself, in two important ways
The govt must understand that if you spend more than you earn, you will end up bankrupt one day
The minister asked three investigating wings of the revenue department to share information among themselves to nab evaders
In the 2019-20 Budget, the government has set a direct tax collection target of Rs 13.35 trillion, which includes Rs 7.66 trillion being collected as corporate taxes and Rs 5.69 trillion as income tax
The government is expecting to earn Rs 12,000 crore on account of this hike in surcharge
The poor are fooled purely for their cheap thrills and entertainment, but the real joke is on the middle classes
The I-T Department added 10.6 mn new return filers during 2017-18 and aims to add 12.5 mn new filers for the current year