Revenue Dept to send tax notices to 35,000 assesses soon: FM

04 Mar 2013 Evaluate

Beefing up efforts to reach the collection target for the fiscal, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said the revenue department has issued tax notices to 35,000 assesses on the basis of information it has and another 35,000 notices will be sent by next week. 

The government is expected to collect over Rs 5.65 lakh crore from tax revenues as per revised estimates, marginally lower than Rs 5.70 lakh crore budgeted for the current fiscal. The gross collection of direct taxes stood at over Rs 4.55 lakh crore during the April-January period of FY13.

By adding further Chidambaram said, the tax department has information about people's expenditure patterns and their financial transactions, thereby; today the best policy is to admit your income and pay tax. The government has earlier issued a strict warning to tax evaders and asked them to disclose their correct income and pay advance tax by the due date otherwise be prepared to face legal action. He added that the government can raise the tax-base to find more people to admit more income. 

The finance minister in Budget has proposed a 10 per cent surcharge on people or entities with taxable income of over Rs 1 crore. However, there are only 42,800 persons in this country that includes individuals, HUF, firms, associations of persons, admitting to a taxable income of Rs 1 crore and above.

Earlier, in February, Chidambaram had asked the revenue department to focus more on shifting to a technology-driven regime for tax collection instead of following a rough approach. To avoid litigation in tax collection, finance minister has asked the revenue department to adopt a non-adversarial approach for tax administration.

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