Income tax: Due to the use of technology and steps taken on war footing to stop tax evasion, the income of the department is increasing. Direct tax collection till October 9 is Rs 11.07 lakh crore.
The Income Tax Department will soon start a helpline to provide information to people and resolve their problems in matters related to Income Tax Returns (ITR) and other tax notices. Now the department has started a call center as a pilot project, from where it is personally calling the taxpayers and providing information. After its success, this project is ready to be implemented on a nationwide level. After this taxpayers will be able to contact the call centre.
Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairman Nitin Gupta told Hindustan that at present the problems of the people are being resolved through the call centre, especially in the cases of tax demand notices. Before making the call, an e-mail is sent to the taxpayer informing him about the call. They are then informed about the tax owed against them and the entire process is explained to them. So far this year it has received 1.4 lakh calls. If the pilot is successful, taxpayers will be able to call the call center on their own and get solutions to their problems.
If you have problem in refund then do these things
Nitin Gupta has told that some taxpayers who may be facing difficulty in getting income tax refund, they need to update their bank information correctly with the Income Tax Department. According to him, there are about 35,000 such cases in which the bank cannot be verified. These taxpayers are being contacted by the department. In such cases, somewhere the account number is wrong and somewhere the IFSC code is found to be wrong. Also, after the merger of many banks, people have not registered their new information. Because of doing this people are finding it difficult to get refund.
Government earnings increased through income tax
Due to the use of technology and steps taken on war footing to prevent tax evasion, the income of the Income Tax Department is continuously increasing. According to the latest data of CBDT, till October 9, direct tax of Rs 11.07 lakh crore has been collected, which is 18 percent more than the same period of the last financial year. Of the total taxes, personal income tax has increased by 30 percent and corporate tax has increased by 7.3 percent.
7.15 crore returns verified
A refund of Rs 1.5 lakh crore has been made by the Income Tax Department from 1 April to 9 October 2023. 7.27 crore income tax returns have been filed in the financial year 2023-24, out of which 7.15 crore are verified. 6.8 crore returns have been processed by the department. Also, 93.5 percent of the verified returns have been processed.
New areas of earning
So far in this financial year, in about 6 months, the tax department has earned Rs 105 crore from bringing crypto assets under the tax net and Rs 600 crore through TDS on online gaming.
