“A proposal is under consideration as to how we can benefit our honest taxpayers. It has been communicated by the finance minister in his budget speech that honest taxpayers will definitely be getting advantages from the I-T Department. A committee had been set up and it has given a report.
“We are examining it,” CBDT Chairman Sushil Chandra was quoted by PTI as saying. Earlier there were reports that the department is mulling to empower the honest tax-payers may get “priority service” while using public services at airports, railway stations and at highway toll plazas.
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi, during a conference with senior tax officers last year, had urged the department to enhance the taxpayer services and ensure that the honest taxpayers were given due importance.
It was proposed that the taxpayers who were consistently paying their taxes or even just filing their returns might be hosted at civic receptions held by prominent government functionaries and honoured publicly, a senior official had said.
A few years back, the board had started a process by which diligent taxpayers were sent “thank you” or appreciation notes through email under the name of the CBDT chairman.
It was proposed to take this initiative forward, the official had said.
Source : TOI
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