Don't visit North Block for transfers – Govt tells IRS (Income Tax) officers

By Vijay Kumar

A communiqué from the Revenue Department laments that, “Officers from filed formations are visiting the Board in order to submit advance copies of their representations regarding their transfer/postings. This adversely affects the work of revenue collections in the field formations. Moreover, such frequent visits to the Board are neither called for nor desirable and creates a situation in which a lot of time and efforts are lost and also adversely affects smooth functioning of the Government. The large number of advance copies of representations forwarded/personally handed over by the officer consumes a great amount of time and material unnecessarily.”

Further, this creates an impression amongst filed officers that until they visit the Board personally to pursue their cases, their transfers would not come through. Therefore, it is in the interest of maintaining administrative propriety that such things should be strongly discouraged.

So the Government wants the Chief Commissioners of Income Tax to ensure that their officers don't crowd the corridors of North Block. But can you really prevent an officer desperate for his transfer from wandering in the corridors of power?

Will CBEC issue a similar circular?

F.No. A-35015/6/2008-AD.VI of the Department of Revenue Dated: May 22, 2008