A Tax Assistant's privilege
S. Thangasamy — the image was hosted by the publisher and was not captured.This is S. Thangasamy, Tax Assistant at the Range-15 office situated at the sixth floor of the new block of "Aayakar Bhavan, Chennai's Income Tax Office. Engaged as he was in the routine and boring job of collecting, Income Tax returns from those far richer than him, around 11-15 a.m. on Monday he had a special assessee queuing up to file his IT return - none other than his super boss - the Finance Minister of India.
Mr. Chidambaram himself appeared before Thangasamy and filed his IT returns. But why did the FM walk in to file the return? Ask him!
"My idea of coming to the Income Tax Office in Chennai is to create among the people a greater awareness on filing IT returns on time and being a dutiful tax paying citizen. Paying taxes should become a matter of pride. Hold your head high and wear the badge of respect," said Mr.Chidambaram
Of course there was a little more than filing returns.
"My visit to the IT office also gave an opportunity to meet the officials and staff and have a better knowledge of the ground realities," He added.