Fire in Income Tax office - assessees to be revisited?
Many an assessee who had an unfriendly visit from the Income Tax, Customs etc, would secretly wish that the Income Tax office is burnt down and his records are lost, so that he is saved from further harassment. You will have no such luck unless your office is also burnt down. After the fire in Mayur Bhavan, where the records of the DG, Intelligence, Income Tax were burnt down, it seems the sleuths are revisiting the assessees to build up their files.
There is an anecdote about a Central Excise Inspector who had his office on the banks of the river Godavari. Once when the river flooded, this Inspector simply threw all his files into the Godavari and thus cleaned his office and sent a report that all the files were washed away in the floods.
A school building was burning and all the children were happily shouting outside that they would have a prolonged vacation. However there was one sincere boy who was crying. A passerby asked him, "why are you crying, are you not happy that the school is burnt down and you can have a long vacation?" "I am happy for that", replied the boy, "but I am sad that all the teachers are left outside!"