Service Tax - VCES - Department frustrating Scheme?
THE Voluntary Compliance Encouragement Scheme (VCES) is heading for a huge failure and prospective applicants are scared to approach the Department as the declarants are being targeted by the Preventive Wing of the Department.
Day before yesterday, the Ahmedabad edition of the Gujarati newspaper Sandesh, reported that when the assesses who want to take benefit come to make inquiries for knowing the procedure for filing VCES they are being subjected to raids after 3 to 4 days due to which the service providers are in a state of shock. Taxpayers who do not apply under VCES within 4 to 5 days after making inquiries with regards to VCES filing are being subjected to raids by the preventive wing officials and post dated cheques are collected from them.
The declarations are being scrutinised with a view to ‘fix' the defaulters. The Department needs an attitudinal change at all altitudes.