{"id":3713,"date":"2015-03-27T17:16:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T11:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2015-03-27T17:17:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T11:47:56","slug":"acche-din-namo-cracks-whip-on-tax-dept-for-harassing-taxpayers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/acche-din-namo-cracks-whip-on-tax-dept-for-harassing-taxpayers\/","title":{"rendered":"Acche Din! NAMO Cracks Whip On Income-Tax Dept For Harassing Taxpayers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi a.k.a NAMO has come to the rescue of beleaguered taxpayers. According to a terse note dated 26th March 2015 addressed by Hon\u2019ble Ms. Anita Kapur, Chairperson of the CBDT, to the Income-tax department, she and the Revenue Secretary had a conference with NAMO regarding the status of public grievances against the department. At the meeting, NAMO \u201c<em>expressed dissatisfaction about delays in responding to public grievances<\/em>\u201d by the officers and \u201c<em>the <strong>harassment<\/strong> meted out to the taxpayers and <strong>officious behaviour<\/strong><\/em>\u201d of the officers. NAMO also made it clear that he will be \u201c<em>personally monitoring<\/em>\u201d the status of monthly grievances on a monthly basis. <\/p>\n<p>The Hon\u2019ble CBDT Chairperson has directed all officers to give \u201c<em>utmost priority<\/em>\u201d to public grievances and to respond and attend to such grievances on \u201c<em>top priority<\/em>\u201d. She has also set out a timeline for disposal of the public grievances. At the end, she has issued a clear warning to the non-compliant officers that \u201c<em>any breach of the timeline will be viewed seriously and accountability will be required to be fixed for such failure<\/em>\u201d.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"journal2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/CBDT_NAMO_letter_260315.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the CBDT Chairperson&#8217;s letter dated 26th March 2015<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi a.k.a NAMO has come to the rescue of beleaguered taxpayers. According to a terse note dated 26th March 2015 addressed by Hon\u2019ble Ms. Anita Kapur, Chairperson of the CBDT, to the Income-tax department, she and the Revenue Secretary had a conference with NAMO regarding the status of public grievances against the department. At the meeting, NAMO \u201c<em>expressed dissatisfaction about delays in responding to public grievances<\/em>\u201d by the officers and \u201c<em>the <strong>harassment<\/strong> meted out to the taxpayers and <strong>officious behaviour<\/strong><\/em>\u201d of the officers. NAMO also made it clear that he will be \u201c<em>personally monitoring<\/em>\u201d the status of monthly grievances on a monthly basis<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/acche-din-namo-cracks-whip-on-tax-dept-for-harassing-taxpayers\/\">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-3713","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\/3713","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=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}