CBDT Refund Drive - A Success Story
THE CBDT Chairman says, “Our initiative to issue all the refunds has received wide public acclaim both in the print and electronic media. In a TV programme ‘We the people' aired by NDTV on Sunday April 24 , 2011, tax payers acknowledged that now they are receiving their refunds without making any effort.”
In that programme, a lady had said that she was to get a refund of Rs. 40,000/- from the Income Tax Department; her chartered accountant called her up and said that she had to pay 10 per cent bribe. She called up three CAs and all of them said that it is how things are done and she has to pay. Another participant in the programme said, “your CA is misleading you and now corruption in Income Tax refunds, is almost zero”. Another participant noted that the CA was not a public servant and he was corrupt; how do you deal with such private corruption?
The CBDT Chairman can certainly feel proud of this success story.