TIOL-DDT 229 · the untouched capture
Rendered as it looked. Links and images are disabled in this view; the file itself is untouched.
<html> <head> <title>Untitled Document</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#663399" size="3">TIOL-DDT 229</font><br> 26 10 2005<br> Wednesday</b></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#006633" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Income Tax – No departmental appeal to Tribunal for amounts less than Rs 2 Lakhs</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The CBDT has decided that from next month appeals with the Tribunal will be filed by the department only if the tax effect is more than Rs. 2 Lakhs. Similarly the ceiling for High Court is Rs. 4 Lakhs and the Supreme Court is Rs. 10 Lakhs. However these limits do not apply in cases where a substantial question of law is involved or cases where the same question of law will repeatedly arise. <br> <br> Will CBEC follow CBDT and issue similar directions?<br> <br> <a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=36&filename=notification/cbdt/2005/instruct02.htm">INSTRUCTION NO. 2/2005, Dated: October 24, 2005</a></font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#006633" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>Officers – replace a positively awful attitude with an awfully positive attitude</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> This was the advice given by a member of the RAC as communicated to all the Chief Commissioners by the Directorate of Publicity and Public Relations, CBEC, recently. The Directorate had circulated the Citizens’ charter to members of the RAC and one of the members responded with the above comment. The concerned citizen has a lot more to say about the citizens’ charter and the department. <br> <br> • Truly speaking the Citizen’s Charter, even today is adorning only the walls of the Officers of Customs and Central Excise. It has not come down to occupy a place even on the table of the officers let alone in their minds and hearts, it has virtually been forgotten by the officers and forsaken by The Trade.<br> <br> • Any amount of liberalization and simplification will be futile if the “attitude” of the officers, especially at the operating level is not positive. <br> <br> • Many officers possess a <b>positively awful attitude. This has to be replaced with an awfully positive attitude. <br> </b><br> • So long as this attitudinal change is not brought about lock, stock and barrel, any Citizen’s Charter or even a more refined document will remain vague, vagarious and jejune. Therefore a total re-engineering or restructuring of attitude of the officers is the need of the hour. Surely how to do it may be a big question mark. However sooner or later nay sooner than later we have to do this …We must.<br> <br> • This mindset of the head of an organization comprising of a unit big or small, can do the trick<br> <br> • it has been my experience, in a majority of cases, that whenever a new head of the organization resumes or relives himself of that post, the trade in general gets a feeling of ennui that “the sun rose having nothing to do and set having seen nothing new.” This should not be. <br> <br> • I am a greater believer in the ability and agility of our Departmental officers. Alas. “something”, “somewhere” debilitates them from exhibiting their true worth, we must unwind this mystery and ensure that every Officer acts worthy of his position in service to this country. Whoever is instrumental in doing this, would be architects of victorious India.</font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#006633" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Corruption and Sania Mirza</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> No links? How can India’s current craze be linked to corruption? Well last year India’s rating in honesty levels and Sania Mirza’s rating in world ranking was almost same at around 100. Now she is ranked below 30 and India remains almost where it was in the least corrupt states ranking. India should emulate Sania and be somewhere around 30, said Central Vigilance Commissioner P. Shanker yesterday at the Ahmedabad seminar on ‘Leadership and Integrity for Better Governance’ organised by the Ahmedabad Central Excise Zone. The CVC also said:-<br> <br> • corruption in India could be reduced by simplifying the government procedures<br> <br> • Simplification is necessary for small and medium industries which do not have the financial capacity to hire an advisor to understand the law<br> <br> • Make people aware of their rights. For this the Right To Information Act can be put to optimum use. This will increase the accountability of officers<br> <br> • Existing systems need to be improved. Every department has to open doors for debates and discussions between senior and junior officers</font></p> <p align="center"><font color="#006633" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Onions to smuggle drugs - Prince sent to jail</b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Today in India onions are so expensive that they are worth smuggling in. But an ingenious prince who tried to walk through the green channel in London’s Heathrow airport with more than 3 kgs of pure cocaine concealed in – yes, onions was caught and convicted to spend 12 years in jail. But why onions? The Nigerian Prince thought that the pungent odour of onions will put off the Customs officers and for more effect he added foul smelling dry fish to his baggage. The bad smell did put off the Customs, but not their sniffer dog. The Prince has 149 siblings, one of whom will become king. He had been involved in anti-drug work in Nigeria and was a director of several companies. <br> <br> <font color="#6633CC"><b>The smuggler is a person who though no doubt highly blamable for violating the laws of his country is frequently incapable of violating those of natural justice, and would have been in every respect, an excellent citizen had not the laws of his country made that a crime which nature never meant to be so</b></font>. – <b>Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, 1776.</b><br> <br> <font color="#FF6666"><b>Until tomorrow with more DDT</b></font></font></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#FF6666"><b><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Have a nice day. </font></b></font></p> <p align="justify"><font color="#FF6666"><b><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Mail your comments to</font></b></font><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <a href="vijaywrite@taxindiaonline.com">vijaywrite@taxindiaonline.com </a></font></p> </body> </html>