Delhi Service Tax Commissionerate continues illegal publication of names
Apparently the Delhi Service Tax Commissionerate has no respect for LAW as we have been pointing out recently. As if to prove that it is above the laws of the land and to proclaim loudly that it has no respect for the Board, whose instructions it has decided to flout openly, on Friday the Commissionerate website carried another story that it has issued a notice to Master Card International for alleged evasion of over Rs. 8 Crores.
Surely the Commissionerate can't be ignorant of the fact that they are not authorised to publish the names of alleged offenders – surely they are flouting the laws challenging somebody and is it the Board?
And why is the Board so helpless when its own instructions are so callously violated by a Commissioner right in Delhi? If the Board cannot make its Commissioner follow the law, the least it can do is to delete the Service Tax (Publication of Names) Rules, 2008; from the Statute books. After all what purpose does a law serve when your own Commissioner is breaking it every day? The FM may consider telling Parliament that he is withdrawing this legislation as one of his own Commissioners had been seen violating the law on a daily basis – and so blatantly and publicly!
There is no worse anarchy, when law enforcers are themselves the law breakers!