New RSA token for officers/staff of the I.T. Dept.

The validity of the existing RSA tokens are going to be expired shortly and the Dept. will provide new RSA token to the officials of the Dept. Old token has to be surrendered to the office of the respective CIT (CO)'s office and new tokens to be collected.
View the DIT (System) clarification in this regard

CBDT pursues FM for cadre review, promises additional 25K Crores revenue

Taxmen seek manpower, perks to mobilise Rs 25,000 cr extra revenue

Taxmen will mobilise an additional Rs 25,000 crore revenues each year in case government approves hiring 20,000 personnel afresh and recast existing pay and promotions structure for revenue officials to bring them on par with administrative, forest and foreign services.

The annual additional pay burden on the government due to this restructuring of income tax department would be Rs 400 crore that would be less than 2 percent of extra revenues to be mobilised.

Top taxation officials and chief commissioners of income tax will moot this proposal before finance minister Palaniappan Chidambaram when they meet him on Monday(03/09/2012).

View your arrear tax demand, if any

As a taxpayer friendly i nitiative, the Income Tax Dept. has enabled a service to allow the taxpayers to view there arrear tax demands, if any. This arrear demands have been posted by the jurisdictional Assessing Officers to the central database of Income Tax Dept.
Assessees can now view the arrear demand and pay accordingly or if it is a fictitious demand (already paid but not credited to their ledger by the A.O.), they can apply for removing the same against their account.
This facility is provided in the following link. Go to the "My Account" tab after logging in.
Click Here to view the Arrear Demand

Provisional permission to appear in ITO / ITI Exams 2012.

The Income Tax Department, Director of Income Tax (IT) has provided the permission for Candidates who had applied online for ITO/ITI DE 2012 but are unable to generate admit card, though eligible, are provisionally allowed to appear in the Examinations.

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