Board badly needs an English Teacher
DDT is never tired of campaigning for appointment of an English teacher in the Board to correct their spelling and grammar mistakes. After all, they are in the business of law making and the faulty laws they make are analysed by the Supreme Court, as the legislative will of about 800 honourable parliamentarians. They SHOULD be a little more careful while drafting these LAWS. Since they have chosen to be careless, the least they can do is to appoint an English teacher who can be assigned the correction job. In fact, Microsoft Word can help them to check their grammar and spelling mistakes. But as they, in their mighty wisdom, have chosen not to rely on Microsoft (who is after all an accused assessee under their control)
Just have a look at the Draft Circular detailed above. [The proper usage is in brackets in red].
Extracts from the circular:
1 | ER.1 | Monthly | All the assesses (assessees) except those filing ER2 or ER.3 |
|---|---|---|---|
3 | ST-3 | Six Monthly | All the Service Tax Assessee's (Assessees – no need of apostrophe) |
3.0 One of the purpose (purposes) of the return is to ensure the payment of the duty/ service tax in time. Accordingly (Accordingly,) it is propsed (proposed) to also align the payment cycle and the return cycle. Under Central Excise Rules (Rules,) the returns and payment cycles are aligned already.
4.0 On Service Tax side at present every asssessee (assessee) files the six monthly return (Rule 7 of Service Tax Rules 1994) whereas the payment cycle is as follows as per the Rule 6 of the said rules
DDT has left out many mistakes, which an English teacher would have corrected.
What can you say about a tax department, which does not know the spelling of ASSESSEE?