TIOL-DDT 1432 · Thursday, 26 August 2010 · story 3 of 6

Will this Stop Spot Realisation?

OVERZEALOUS officers raiding assessees have a fancy for realising 'spot payments'. Of late, they collect post dated cheques from their victims and make a show before their commissioners that they have collected so much revenue on the spot and this adds to their spotless career graph. But now these cheques can be deposited only if there is an assessee code!