Can't You Treat taxpayers with little more respect?
ALL right, you can't simplify the laws and procedures, but what prevents you from treating your taxpayers with a little more respect? Why should every action of the taxpayer be treated as evasion? Some of the Show Cause Notices and Orders of the Authorities would make it appear as if every contravention is a fraud. These pious documents contain charges like, “it is an after thought”, concluding that the assessee is a liar. Assessees who pay Crores of rupees as taxes are charged with not paying a thousand rupees with intent to evade payment of duty.
Huge amounts of duty are demanded and penalties imposed without a thought as to how anyone can pay such huge amounts. And then appellate authorities and Courts are routinely convinced that the adjudication orders are correct and so huge pre-deposits are ordered. Insulting the tax payer after causing him injury is certainly not a proud thing to happen in a free country. May be we should start a new SPCA – Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Assessees.