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I-T Dept Doesn't Withhold Refunds or Scrutinise Small Taxpayers CBDT

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The Income Tax department does not withhold refunds of small taxpayers nor does it generally select their tax returns for scrutiny and detailed analysis, the CBDT has said in an attempt to dispel two of the biggest concerns of this category of assesses. The chief of the apex policy-making body of the I-T department, CBDT chairperson Anita Kapur, said she would like to bust the myth and “fear psychosis“ that once people file their tax returns, they automatically come on the radar of the taxman and then they are tracked.
Kapur, in an interview to PTI, said in cases of neatly filed electronic Income Tax Returns (ITRs), the department has set a deadline of six months for refunds to be generated and sent to the taxpayer.
“We tell the taxpayers that in e-file returns we take a maximum of six months to process it if you have a clean return and no TDS mis-match. But then there is a misinformation campaign that we hold refunds. I will say we don't hold refunds for small taxpayers. “For large taxpayers, if it is a scrutiny case, then we have to hold it as per law till the scrutiny assessment is over but not for small taxpayers if their ITRs are all correct,“ she said. “We are not interested in holding up small returns,“ the CBDT chief said. Kapur said her second area of concern over which she would like to put the record straight is the version that taxman puts the cases of small and middle-category taxpayers on the scrutiny list which en tails submis sion of addi sion of addi tional documents and visits to the assess ing I-T offi cer.
Citing an example, she said no tax inspector can just go to y a person, like a fruit seller, and say he has to file his I-T re turn or that his return is going to be scrutinised.
“We are told that people are scared that once tax department knows about them after they have done filing (of ITR) then they are tracked and followed and they stay on the radar of the I-T department„“ she said.
The Economic Times, New Delhi, 5th Oct. 2015.

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