IRS Officers not filing IPRS!
OFFICERS of the Government are required to file an annual Immovable Property Return and these returns are to be uploaded in the website. The CBEC Member (P&V) Praveen Mahajan has written to all Chief Commissioners that “the IPRs of only 10% of Group ‘A' officers for the year 2010 had been received in the Board. The list of available IPRs was uploaded on DGHRD website and the field formations were directed to send the remaining IPRs for the year 2010 (return as on 01.01.2011). It is observed that the progress in this regard is far from satisfactory and only 13% IPRs for the year 2010 have been received so far. The list of 393 IPRs for the year 2010 which are available with the Board (Pers/EC Section) has been uploaded on the DGHRD website.”
She wants the Chief Commissioners to ensure that all the officers file their returns and they reach the Board latest by 8 th February. And this is in respect of the returns for the year 2010. The return for the year 2011 is also due and nobody is talking about it now.
In the website, you can find the IPRs of 7 Chief Commissioners and 25 Commissioners and obviously, the rest of the officers (there are about 50 Chief Commissioners and 300 Commissioners) have no respect for Government's directions or rules and these are the officers enforcing the law and punishing people for the slightest mistake.