{"id":2806,"date":"2013-09-18T15:28:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T09:58:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/?p=2806"},"modified":"2013-09-18T15:31:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T10:01:49","slug":"parliament-committee-hauls-up-dept-for-adventurous-assessment-orders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/parliament-committee-hauls-up-dept-for-adventurous-assessment-orders\/","title":{"rendered":"Parliament Committee Hauls Up Dept For &#8216;Adventurous&#8217; Assessment Orders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has released a report on \u201cTax Administration\u201d in which several far-reaching observations have been made regarding the functioning of the Income-tax department. One of the issues that irked the Committee was the tendency amongst the Assessing Officers of passing \u201c<em>adventurous<\/em>\u201d assessment orders. It noted that the arbitrary additions made in such &#8220;<em>adventurous<\/em>&#8221; orders were causing undue harassment to the taxpayers and had led to high levels of dis-satisfaction. It recorded the solemn statement of the Revenue Secretary that a system would be implemented which would provide disincentives against such orders. The department assured the Committee that it would henceforth inculcate in the Assessing Officers an attitude of passing &#8220;<em>fair and judicious<\/em>&#8221; assessment orders. <\/p>\n<p>The Report makes for interesting reading because there are several other important suggestions made by the Committee to reform the tax administration of the Country.<\/p>\n<div class=\"journal2\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-downloadmanager\/images\/ext\/pdf.gif\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" style=\"vertical-align: middle;\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/download\/Parliament_Report_Tax_Admin.pdf\">Parliament Committee Report On Tax Administration<\/a><\/strong> (1.1 MiB, 4,670 hits)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has released a report on \u201cTax Administration\u201d in which several far-reaching observations have been made regarding the functioning of the Income-tax department. One of the issues that irked the Committee was the tendency amongst the Assessing Officers of passing \u201c<em>adventurous<\/em>\u201d assessment orders. It noted that the arbitrary additions made in such &#8220;<em>adventurous<\/em>&#8221; orders were causing undue harassment to the taxpayers and had led to high levels of dis-satisfaction. It recorded the solemn statement of the Revenue Secretary that a system would be implemented which would provide disincentives against such orders. The department assured the Committee that it would henceforth inculcate in the Assessing Officers an attitude of passing &#8220;<em>fair and judicious<\/em>&#8221; assessment orders.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/parliament-committee-hauls-up-dept-for-adventurous-assessment-orders\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-information","category-others"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}