Believe me, I believe you…Sudha Sharma, CBDT Chief
Dr.Sudha Sharma has taken over as the new Chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes and has addressed the members of the Aayakar family through a 521 worded letter titled ‘A Word from Chairperson, CBDT'.
While profusely thanking the Finance Minister and calling him the epitome of support for the Cadre restructuring proposal approved by him and which has resulted in creation of 1349 posts in IRS Cadre and 19402 posts in non IRS Cadres, totalling 20751 additional posts in the department, the Chairperson has reminded the members of the family the guiding principles of non-intrusive and non-adversarial tax administration, to be followed in the day-to-day working and to create environment for voluntary compliance, as given by the Finance Minister when he took over charge.
The Chairperson has also asked her ‘family members' to focus on non-filers and stop-filers in order to enhance the tax base and augment tax collection and culled out some statistics - that the tax base is of only about 3.5 crore assesses, which is a mere 2.9% of national population, wherein only 42,800 show annual income over Rs. One Crore, and that is too small for a country like ours!
Believe me, I believe you and your potential…I want all of you to be ‘thinking' persons, with ingenuity to think ways and means for the development of the Department and the well-being of the nation, are the words of the Chairperson while concluding her address to the family members.
DDT wishes the Chairperson all the best!