Cadre Review Confusion
A Chartered Accountant from Chennai writes in:
The new reorganisation of the IT department has left all the Chennai IT offices in a shambles. There are certain promotee IT officers who have been just provided a table and a chair with no cabins, no computer systems nor any office assistants. Most of them are yet to receive the files transferred to them. And what more, there is a further reorganisation, which is happening on the 15th.
The plight of the assessees and their representatives is best left unsaid. Even earlier, whenever there is a change in incumbent they had to go through the process of explaining the whole case to the new officer. Now it just got worse.
The assessments to be completed by March 2015 are all being held up for a variety of reasons.
The new instructions are not useful to the assessing officers either. They have been asked to cover the matters based on which cases have been selected for scrutiny alone. And if the additions sought to be made are more than Rs 10 lakhs alone they are entitled to make such additions and that too after obtaining the consent of the CIT. So there cannot be any minor additions.
These instructions, changes could have waited till the end of the year and after the entire administration is geared up. Doing all this in the middle of the assessment stage is really affecting the morale of the personnel as well the assessees.
We talk so much about ease of business but that seems to be nowhere in sight.
In the CBEC, thousands of promoted Superintendents and Assistant Commissioners are looking for places to park themselves in. And the assessees have no idea as to where the new offices and who the new officers are. Mercifully, Revenue will come in spite of this army of officers.