CCIT and DG conference in New Delhi on 11th and 12th June

Cadre Review likely to be announced
The top brass of the Income Tax department and CBDT will hold a brainstorming session on various issues related to black money, revenue collection and the proposed Direct Taxes Code (DTC) here next week.     The Directors General (DGs) and Chief Commissioners of Income Tax will get together on June 11 and 12 for their annual conference to deal with various challenges faced by the I-T department and the direct tax revenue collection set up, officials said today.     This will be the 28th edition of the conference. Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is expected to inaugurate the session on June 11 while senior officials of the Finance Ministry and those belonging to economic enforcement agencies under the Revenue department will participate in the event.     Some important policy decisions related to cadre restructuring of the I-T department and the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) are also expected to be announced during the conference, the officials said.     "Various issues and challenges being tackled by the department like the fight against black money, strategies for better tax collection and implementation of the proposed DTC are expected to be taken up during the two-day conference," a senior official said.     The conference will also deliberate on issues related to vigilance, technology upgradation and creation of infrastructure across the country. A similar conference of the top officials of the Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) is at present underway here
Source : (PTI)

Govt. bans post creation, cadre review likely to be delayed

In a move to cut down Govt. expenditure outflow, the finance ministry has launched an austerity drive. In a recently issued (31/05) Order, it has announced various cost cuttle exercises including a blanket ban on new post creation. As a result the possibility of early implementation of cadre review stands bleak. Until and unless Govt. loosens it's  farm stand on austerity measure and lift the ban on new post creation, it may be easily assumed that cadre review and restructure of the Income Tax Dept. like any other organization is delayed indefinitely.
View the O. M. on austerity measure

Taxmen assaulted while on raid at Allahabad

Allahabad, May 30 (PTI) Three persons were arrested today in connection with the assault on Income Tax officials during a raid yesterday in a city-based hospital injuring 20 of the officials, police said. An FIR was registered at the Keedganj police station here late last night, hours after the raid and the subsequent assault on IT sleuths took place, police said. The FIR was following a direction from Uttar Pradesh Director General of Police A C Sharma whom senior officials of the Income Tax department met in Lucknow and complained about the behaviour of the staff of Jeevan Jyoti hospital here, they said. More than 30 people, including the hospital's owner A K Bansal, were named in the FIR following which three staff members of the hospital, including the security guard who was on duty when the assault took place, were arrested in the wee hours, police said. The FIR has been lodged under various sections of the IPC dealing with assault and causing grievous injury to deter a public servant from doing his duty. Raids were being carried out to arrest other people including Bansal, police said. Yesterday, Additional Director (Investigation) Income Tax Department Ajay Pratap Singh told reporters here that simultaneous raids were conducted at 15 places, 13 of them in Allahabad and one each in Gorakhpur and Delhi, following allegations of tax evasion by Bansal and his wife Vandana who run a number of hospitals, clinics and nursing schools in the city and elsewhere. Singh had claimed that computers and other important documents have been seized from the hospital for investigation purposes.

  

Ministry holding talk on cadre review of CBDT and CBEC : F.M.

"He said the ministry was in talks with the Central Board of Direct Taxes and the Central Board of Excise and Customs on cadre restructuring. “This will include the creation of a large number of posts and putting in place an in-built system for incentive and promotion. The fiscal situation of the country depends largely on the efficiency of the tax system in the country,” Mukherjee said.

To increase voluntary compliance by taxpayers, the I-T department is setting up Aaykar Seva Kendras to provide tax-related services, including filing of returns, through a single window system. At these kiosks, the taxpayer will be provided with a unique acknowledgement number against the service that can be used to keep track of the request or complaint."

Source : The Telegraph (F.M. made the comment while inagurating Aayakar Seva Kendra in Bamboo Villa< Kolkata)

I.T. cadre review : File back to CBDT

It is learnt from sources that cadre review proposal, which has been earlier cleared by DOPT with moderate reduction in ACIT posts, has been returned to CBDT asking for some clarification. It is expected to be sent soon for cabinet approval and subsequent implementation.
It may be remembered that CBDT is very much eager for early implementation and early promotions as they have asked all cadre controlling CCITs to get the APARs ready by 20th April 2012 for conducting early DPC in view of the cadre review proposal accepted by the Govt.
View the Chairman's message in this regard