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Expect tax notices to your e-mail
Expect tax notices to your e-mail. In welcome news for taxpayers, the Income Tax Department has decided to launch a new system of issuing email notices and allows assesses to respond electronically.
No more harassment by the Assessing Officer
CBDT chief Anita Kapur says she was aware of instances where the taxpayers complained about the Assessing Officer raising numerous queries upon meeting the assessees despite their earlier order sheets having mention of only a few queries
New Delhi: In welcome news for taxpayers, the Income Tax Department has decided to launch a new system of issuing email notices and allows assesses to respond electronically. It means, hereafter assesses need not attend physically before I-T official.The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the apex policymaking body of the I-T department, is working on a strategy to create the required processes and capacity in this regard.
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"We have been thinking how can we make life easier for taxpayers especially for those who are in the middle and the slightly higher tax bracket. So, now we are thinking of allowing that when a notice is issued in an assessment or scrutiny case, the taxpayer can send the department an e-response." "We are trying to resolve some security issues in this regard now after which it could be implemented," CBDT Chairperson Anita Kapur said.
Explaining the procedure, Ms Kapur said that if a taxpayer provides the department with a bona-fide email address in his/her income tax return (ITR), the board will be able to send him/her an e-notice and not a paper document dispatched through post for which he/she usually has to travel and meet the Assessing Officer (AO).
"The taxpayer can respond through the email and if we have some more queries we give you another notice by the electronic medium so that both the AO and the taxpayer remain in an e-environment and, may be, during the final hearing when the AO wants to close the matter, the taxpayer can come once to the tax office," the CBDT chief said.
She said the purpose of introducing the system was to reduce the interface between the taxpayer and the AO. "The taxpayer can send documents over email, scan them, upload them and it's over," she added. Tax experts say the initiative will also ensure privacy of a taxpayers' communication with their AOs and the Income Tax Department.
The CBDT chief said she was aware of instances where the taxpayers complained about the AO raising numerous queries upon meeting the assessees despite their earlier order sheets having mention of only a few queries.
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