CAG not getting Records from Income Tax Offices!
THE principal Director(Direct Taxes) in the CAG's Office has written a letter to the Member, CBDT informing him that CAG officers are experiencing difficulties in obtaining records for the Performance Audit on ‘Administration of Penalty and Prosecution' from the field formations of CBDT in the absence of instructions from CBDT.
He has requested the CBDT Member to issue necessary instructions to his field formations to produce the relevant records for conducting the Performance Audit under intimation to the CAG's Office.
Some clever field officers and even some assessees do not give the records to the CAG's auditors as the best form of defence against silly audit objections and sometimes CAG writes a para that records are not produced and this objection drags on for years.