CHIDAMBARAM ASKS TAX ASSESSES TO FILE THEIR RETURNS
Ahead of the Budget, Finance Minister P Chidambaram today appealed to all assesses to file their returns, amid
fears of a shortfall in budgeted tax collections. He also said the tax department was moving towards information
technology to improve the tax payment and refund mechanism.
"We have around 2.8 million deductees, of which only 1.4 million people have filed returns. The other 1.4 million do not file returns. We do not know whether they are filing tax deducted at source (TDS),” the finance minister told reporters after inaugurating the Centralised Processing Cell (CPC) of the Income Tax department at Vaishali, Ghaziabad. The CPC would process all TDS applications and help ease the compliance procedure for taxpayers.
Chidambaram said with the use of technology, the tax department would have to get each one of the 2.8 million tax deductees to file returns so that the tax amount can be credited to the government and refund to the deductee. He added a technology-driven tax administration would help the tax deductor, the tax collector and the payee link to each other without being manually involved in the process.
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