Official email address and office telephone number on Notice u/s. 143(2) of Income Tax Act
IN December 2015 ( 28 12 2015), the Revenue Secretary had directed that any notice/letter/communication issued by any officer under Department of Revenue including CBDT, its directorates and field formations to the tax payers, members of public should invariably contain mention of email address and office phone numbers, of the officers signing such, communications/notice/letters for facilitating tax payers' electronic interface with the Department.
It has come to the notice of the CBDT that that the notices do not contain any such details. This has led to a situation where the taxpayers who want to communicate with the Assessing Officer through e-mail or wish to make statutory compliance electronically are unable to do so. Further, non furnishing of official telephone number also causes inconvenience to the taxpayer concerned in case he needs to seek any clarification from the Assessing Officer. (31 08 2016)
Some instances have been reported where e-mail address and office telephone number of Assessing Officer is not printed on notice u/s. 143(2) generated on the system. This is due to incomplete profile information of assessing officers present in HRMS system
Board directs that until the e-mail address and office telephone number of Assessing Officers are automatically printed on notices u/s. 143(2), the Assessing Officers should put a stamp/mention the details of their official email address and office telephone number on notices u/s. 143(2) before sending it to the assessees.
CBDT F.No. DGIT(S)/ADG(S)-2/CASS 2016-17/93/2016., Dated: September 22 2016