Letters sent to those not filing IT returns
Posted on: 26/Jul/2013 11:36:17 AM
An official statement from the Income Tax (IT) Department has said that letters have been sent to 35000 assessees who have not filed their returns.
‘The Income Tax department has sent letters to another batch of 35,000 non filers ... With this latest batch, the department has now issued letters in 2.10 lakh high priority cases… The response to this initiative has been very encouraging and a large number of tax payers have paid taxes and filed I-T returns’, said the statement.
The government plans to collect over Rs 6.68 lakh crore from direct taxes during the current fiscal, up from Rs 5.65 lakh crore in the previous fiscal.
