What will happen to proposed ‘Audit' Commissionerates?
IN the Cadre restructuring CBEC has proposed 45 Commissionerates exclusively for Audit. Now that they do not have the power to audit, what will happen to these Commissionerates and about 10,000 personnel who are to man these Commissionerates? Now will the Department recruit an army of Chartered Accountants and Cost Accountants to do the Audit job?
What will the Department do now? Appeal to the Supreme Court? Bring in retrospective legislation to validate Rule 5A(2)?
And in the meantime is the Audit wing being closed down? As the advocate says, the judgement has All India effect and assessees are no more obliged to entertain the Departmental auditors.