Due to low tax collections, the Mr. Sushil Chandra, the current Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), instructed the income tax officials to speed up the recovery measures and conduct more surveys to maximize the revenue collection.
Slamming the Officers for not taking effective measures to increase the tax collection, the CBDT head pointed out that collection from some region are still negative. It was said that in November 2017, the All India growth rate of net collection was 14.36 per cent whereas the required rate was 15.3 per cent.
In a letter addressed to the Chief Officials, the Chairman said that “One area where efforts of the field officers can directly result in higher collections is recovery from arrear and current demand. However, the figures of recoveries made till October 2017 paint a dismissal picture. Only 25.5 per cent of the annual target of Rs. 71,513 crore has been collected out of arrear demand and a number of Regions have barely achieved 5 per cent to 15 percent of the target,” he said.
“Very few recovery related surveys have been carried out in the country and practically, no property has been auctioned by the TRO for recovery of demand,” he added.
He also directed the Officials to carry out more recovery surveys in a lerge number of suitable cases after due diligence.
He further said that “the powers of attachment and sale of movable property should be invoked to effect recoveries where regular measures to recover the demand have not been successful. Even prosecution under section 276 C (2) should be invoked where demand is not being paid without any justifiable reason. Revenue-yielding non-time-barring scrutiny cases should also be completed now so that the demand so raised is partly collected in the current financial year itself.”
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