Need to move towards technology driven tax administration: FM

25 Feb 2013 Evaluate

Admitting that there is a need to move towards a technology driven tax administration, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said income tax department should move towards information technology, which will help to process the TDS returns and capture massive data so that government gets revenue and taxpayers get refund.

While inaugurating the Centralized Processing Cell (CPC) of the Income Tax department, he said 'we will have to get each one of the 28 lakh tax deductees (under TDS). The tax amount would be credited to the government and refund would be credited to the deductee. And this can be done only if we move to technology.’

By adding further he said, a technology driven tax administration would assist the tax deductor, tax collector and also the payee. It will also help all the three get linked to each other without being manually involved in the process. The CPC would process all Tax Deducted at Source (TDS) applications and would help ease the compliance procedure for taxpayers.

Concerned over the widening fiscal deficit, the government had earlier issued stern warning to tax evaders, asking them to disclose their correct income and pay advance tax by due date or be prepared to face action. The government has realized around 28 lakh deductees, of which only 14 lakh people have filed return. Despite slowdown in economic activities, the government is confident for meeting the Rs 5.70 lakh crore direct tax target for the fiscal. Direct taxes include income tax, corporate tax and wealth tax.

The gross collection of direct taxes stood at over Rs 4.55 lakh crore during the April-January period of current fiscal, as against Rs 4.25 lakh crore in the same period in 2011-12.

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