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<p ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b><font color="#663399" size="3">TIOL-DDT
410</font><br>
20 07 2006<br>
Thursday</b></font></p>
<p align=center ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#006600">Too
little Mr PC</font></strong></font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">While
the CBEC Chairman, Mr. VP Singh deserves all praise for the <i><u>ex gratia</u></i>
of Rs. 5 Lakhs to the families of the excise officers killed in the Mumbai blast,
Rs 1 Lakh to the permanently disabled and Rs. 25,000 to the injured – these
are too small amounts of money to be announced in the name of the Finance Minister
of the country. Somebody is permanently disabled due to the madness of some
terrorists and you offer him a lakh of rupees! It is demeaning! What is Five
lakhs of rupees to a young lady who has just lost her husband?., </font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This
was a great opportunity for the CBEC to tell its staff that at least in times
of tragedy, there is a government to stand with you and offer some solace. With
so much of money lying in the welfare fund, the Board should have been a little
more liberal. When an IPS officer was killed by naxalites in Bihar, the poor
state government apart from an ex gratia of Rs. 10 Lakhs, announced a house
for the wife of the officer any where in the country apart from paying her the
salary her husband would have got till his actual retirement date. If poor Bihar
could do it, the rich CBEC could have done much better, especially when they
have so much money in the welfare fund. The CBEC should have extended the gesture
to the CBDT also as they don’t have a welfare fund.</font></p>
<p ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b>DDT </b>suggests<b>-</b></font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
1. The spouse of the dead and seriously injured should be given a job immediately
in the department; </font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
2. Give them a pension equal to the last salary drawn by the deceased or seriously
disabled – with periodical increments. </font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
3. The government should bear the entire educational expenditure of the children
till they are employed</font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
4. Provide a free housing accommodation for the next 25 years wherever they
want to stay. </font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
5. If the complicated government rules do not allow all this, use the money
from the welfare fund.</font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
6. In any case, cut the red tape and do things fast. Designate a Chief Commissioner
in Mumbai to be personally responsible to ensure that the families do get the
aid on time.</font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
7. Treat this as a life, not a file.</font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This
is a great opportunity for us to prove that beyond our daily routine nonsense
of assumed collection of revenue and producing tons of data, we also <b>CARE.
</b></font></p>
<p align=center ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#006600">IT
men on strike – file your returns early</font></strong></font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">July
31 is the last day to file your IT return and this year it may not be extended.
Don’t wait for the last day to file your return; you may not beat the deadline
what with the income tax employees threatening to go strike. Their demands:-
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<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
1. Dropping the proposal to set up Large Taxpayer Units</font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
2. Drop the department's decision to outsource income tax forms </font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">
3. Clear promotions.</font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Genuine
Demand, May be! The employees plan not to work beyond office hours and not to
work on 29<sup>th</sup> and 30<sup>th</sup>, which are holidays. Nearly 70%
of the assessees file their return in the last week of July, and if employees
don’t co operate, things can be really bad. Employees should realise that it
is no more possible to blackmail the government; hey can as well outsource the
job. And government should consider the employee grievance and should not drive
them to the point of a strike.</font></p>
<p align=center ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#006600">Biometrics
for PAN – Income Tax invites bids</font></strong></font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The
Income Tax department uses Permanent Account Number (PAN) to identify its taxpayers
and it is also used as a common business number by several departments of the
central government. Till date the Income Tax department has issued around 46
million PANs and around 500,000 new PANs are allotted every month. The interface
with PAN applicants is managed by two service providers, viz. M/s National Securities
Depository Limited and M/s UTI Technology Services Limited, who operate approximately
2000 front offices for PAN services across the country.</font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Now
they want to use biometric features, such as finger prints, iris or retina images,
before allotting PAN to prevent allotment of more than one PAN to any one person.
So they arte inviting offers from organizations engaged in the business of providing
biometric solutions for identification purposes and having requisite experience</font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The
department wants to ensure that the proposed solution should be cost effective
and should not lead to long queues of applicants at the front offices. </font></p>
<p align=center ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><strong><font color="#006600">File
returns – Ahmadabad Commissioner tells dealers </font></strong></font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The
Commissioner observes that <b>There are large number of dealers who are registered
with the Central Excise Department under Rule 9 of the Central Excise Rules,
2002, but it has been noticed that some of these registered dealers are not
following the Central Excise Procedures properly as they are not filing the
Quarterly Returns regularly or/ and have not filed returns for the last four
quarters.,</b></font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The
Commissioner further clarifies that <b>the registered dealers are further requested
to note that they have to file 'NIL' report, even if they do not transect any
business during the quarter.</b></font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">This
is advisory as of now but if you don’t comply, <b>action as per law will be
taken.</b></font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><u><a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/inside2.php3?filename=wnew/tradenotice.htm">TRADE
NOTICE NO. 32/2006 - CENVAT NO 4/2006 - Dated : July 4, 2006</a></u></font></p>
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<TD><div align="justify"><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><b><font color="#0000FF">Ex
gratia </font>- an <i>ex gratia payment</i> is a payment made
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<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">By
the very nature of things no one has a legal right to claim a reward. The scheme
itself shows that it is purely an <b><i>ex-gratia</i></b> payment subject to
guidelines and may be granted on the absolute discretion of the competent authority
and cannot be claimed by anyone. <b> - </b><u><font size="1"><a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=50&filename=legal/sc/2004/2004-TIOL-10-SC-REWARD.htm">2004-TIOL-10-SC-REWARD</a></font></u></font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> This
apart, (reward) being <b><i>ex gratia</i></b>, no right accrues to any sum as
such till it is determined and awarded as a matter of right. <b><u>- </u></b><u><a href="http://www.taxindiaonline.com/RC2/subCatDesc.php3?subCatDisp_Id=50&filename=legal/sc/2003/2003-TIOL-09-SC-REWARD.htm"><font size="1">2003-TIOL-09-SC-REWARD</font></a></u></font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font color="#FF6666" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Until
Tomorrow with more DDT </font></p>
<p align="justify" ><font color="#FF6666" size="2" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Have
a nice day. </font></p>
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