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CBDT introduces unique ID to check issue of unauthorised notices
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SME Times News Bureau | 14 Aug, 2019
In a bid to clamp down on unauthorised notices and summons issued to
individuals and corporates by tax officials, the Central Board of Direct
Taxes (CBDT) on Wednesday announced the introduction of
computer-generated Document Identification Number (DIN), which will be
be quoted in any notice issued by its officials.
The DIN comes into effect from October 1, 2019, said an official statement.
The
development comes in the wake of the recent call for ease in
unnecessary and continuous tax related enquiries along with rise in
concern over increasing harassment of corporates by tax officials. This
situation came to light with Coffee Day Enterprises founder V.G.
Siddhartha's last letter to the company board, where he mentioned
incessant harrassment by tax officials.
On August 13, IANS
reported that the government will soon lay out procedures that would
further provide impetus to ease of doing business. This could include
measures by the revenue department to ensure honest taxpayers are not
harassed and those who commit minor or procedural violations are not
subjected to excessive penal action.
According to the CDBT,
although most of the notices and orders of the Income Tax Department are
being generated electronically on the Income Tax Business Application
(ITBA) platform, there have been some instances in which the notice,
order, summons and letters were found to have been issued manually,
without maintaining a proper audit trail of such communication.
"In
order to prevent such instances and to maintain proper audit trail of
all communication, the CBDT has laid down parameters specifying the
manner in which any communication issued by any income-tax authority
relating to assessment, appeals, orders, statutory or otherwise,
exemptions, enquiry, investigation, verification of information,
penalty, prosecution, rectification, approval etc. to the assessee or
any other person will be dealt with," the statement said.
"All
such communication issued on or after the 1st of October, 2019, shall
carry a computer-generated Document Identification Number (DIN) duly
quoted in the body of such communication."
The CBDT has also
specified exceptional circumstances where the communication may be
issued manually but only after recording reasons in writing and with the
prior written approval of the Chief Commissioner or Director General of
Income-Tax concerned.
"In cases where manual communication is
required to be issued, the reason for issue of manual communication
without DIN has to be specified alongwith the date of obtaining written
approval of the Chief Commissioner or Director General of Income-Tax in a
particular format," it said.
In all pending assessment
proceedings, where notices were issued manually, all such cases would be
identified and the notices so sent would be uploaded on ITBA by 31st
October, 2019.
The order comes a day after IANS reported that a
stimulus package is on the anvil for reviving the economy, which could
include measures by the revenue department to ensure honest taxpayers
are not harassed and those who commit minor or procedural violations are
not subjected to excessive action.
The Prime Minister too indicated about such measures in a recent media interview.
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