Simplify Tax Laws - Vigilance Commissioner to CBEC
Legal Corner Icon — the image was hosted by the publisher and was not captured.CENTRAL Vigilance Commissioner JM Garg told the CBEC to make the laws simple so that different interpretations are avoided. "For example, if two Commissioners interpret laws in different ways then there will be problems. Similarly a tax payer and his lawyer, they interpret it in different ways. Then there is a question mark whether the law is currently effective or requires any amendments," he said while inaugurating a conference on transparent and robust vigilance mechanisms organised by CBEC.
The Vigilance Commissioner said that simplification would also help in resolving disputes. The innocuous Vigilance Commissioner does not know that for the last sixty years or so, the Board has been on the mission of simplification of laws and brought them to such complicated levels that now nobody understands them. How do you understand the exemption for “All goods, other than those which are clearly not to be used as fertilisers”?
Perhaps there is a vested interest in keeping the laws complicated.