Hon’ble Sushil Chandra, the Chairman of the CBDT, has issued a directive dated 17.03.2017 in which he has made his displeasure at the “unsatisfactory performance in the area of recovery” very clear. The learned Chairman has relied on facts and figures and stated that the achievement in some regions “is even worse than the national average, which itself is very low”. He has also argued that the collections till February 2017 have a “miserably low ratio”

The CBDT has vide Order No. 35 of 2017 dated 09.03.2017 promoted several officers to the grade of Principal Commissioner of Income Tax (HAG scale of pay (Rs. 67,000 – 79,0001-) (pre-revised) by maintaining their inter- se-seniority w.e.f. the date of assumption of charge of the post. The CBDT has also stated that the promotion of certain officers will be on notional basis from the date their juniors were promoted and actually from the date of assumption of charge of the post, whichever is earlier

Hon’ble Sushil Chandra, the Chairman of the CBDT, has addressed a letter dated 7th March 2017 to the Principal Chief Commissioners of Income-tax in which he has bluntly observed that the work relating to the filing of prosecution complaints and disposal of compounding applications “is not upto the mark”. The learned Chairman has opined that prosecution proceedings can be successfully initiated in several cases of entry operators including those concerning bogus LTCG claims, cases rejected by Settlement Commission etc. He has directed the officers to put in their best and expedite filing of prosecution complaints and disposal of compounding applications