Tuesday, 5 April 2016

CIB- What is it?

The Income Tax Department (ITD) has strengthened its vigilance in the past few years and has made it a mission to identify stop- filers and non- filers and hence widen the tax base effectively. Once they have successfully identified these defaulters, they send a notice to such persons. The notice will usually read as such-

“The Income Tax Department has received information on financial transactions / activities relating to you. A list of some of the information for Financial Year is provided below. As per records, you do not appear to have filed Income Tax Return for Assessment Years. “ 

If you have received such a notice, then you will have to login to your e-filing portal and issue an appropriate response as stated in the compliance module. You would then have to print out this acknowledgement of response and send a copy to the jurisdiction ITO (Income Tax Officer) within a set number of days.

This additional crackdown- information gathering and other associated operations- are done via CBI )Central Information Branch). They will look beyond the Annual Information Report, as per Form 26AS, furnished by the ward. Since 2011, they have been working tirelessly to ensure a transparent exchange fo financial information between the individuals and the ITD by gathering information about investments, expenses, payment of taxes etc. For more information about our services and CA’s in Mysore, do visit our website at www.ca-msa.com

No comments:

Post a Comment