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April 2010

FM asks IRS officers to collect taxes with human touch

By Raman Jokhakar
Tarunkumar G. Singhal
Chartered Accountants
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Finance Minister Pranab
Mukherjee has asked Indian Revenue Service officials to consider taxpayers as
important stakeholders in nation-building and to administer taxes with a human
approach. He was addressing the 63rd batch of IRS trainees last evening.

Mr. Mukherjee pointed out
that the shift in policy whereby taxpayers are not seen as adversaries has
resulted in a significant growth in tax collection during the past decade. He
asked the trainee officers to imbibe this approach in their daily working.

The Finance Minister said
that direct taxes collection has increased by ten times during the past decade.
He also pointed out that the share of direct taxes is now more than 55%.

The Finance Minister
reminded the officials that it was due to increased tax buoyancy and collection
efforts of Revenue departments that the government was able to waive off the
loans to farmers amounting to Rs.71,000 crores.

(Source : www.taxindiaonline.com dated 12-3-2010)

(Compiler’s Note :
Let us see how much impact this makes on the attitude of the Revenue officials)

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