Early Times Report
Jammu, Mar 27: After detecting that some employees have claimed income tax refunds through fraudulent documents, authorities of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday directed all the Heads of Department (HoD) to take action against the erring employees.
The School Education Department of the Jammu and Kashmir Government on Monday issued a circular No No:Edu-Acctts/Cir/2022-23/42-52 Dated: 27/03/2023 as Most Urgent in which directions were issued to all HoDs.
“All the Heads of Department (HoDs) as well as DDOs of sub-ordinate offices in particular and all employees, in general, working under the Administrative Department of School Education Department UT J&K, are hereby informed that a meeting was convened by Principal Commissioner, Income Tax on 24/03/2023 in his office chamber at Rajbagh Sgr. wherein the DDOs of various institutions attended the meeting”, the circular reads.
In the meeting, it was intimated that the number of income tax refund claims of employees has increased manifold in the last two years as the employees are utilizing the services of some tax professionals wherein TDS deducted from their salaries by ODO is refunded by using various sections of Income Tax on the basis of fabricated documents.
These bogus refund claims have been viewed seriously by the Income-tax Department and details of such employees who have claimed refunds have been prepared and intimated to the Chief Secretary of Jammu and Kashmir.
However, it has been felt that before their names are forwarded to their respective departments time relaxation has been given to such claimants till 31-03-2023 that a rectified lTR as (ITR-U) may be filed otherwise it shall have some serious repercussions followed by Departmental inquiries and imposition of penalties U/S 270(A) and U/S 276 (C) of Income Tax Act 1961.
Reports said that the Income Tax Department has complete details of all such erring employees, who belong to Education, Health, PDD, PHE, Cooperatives, Sports, Tourism, Industry, PWD, Police, and other departments of J&K Government.
Such cases of bogus refunds may lead to scrutiny and recoveries of demand besides the levy of penalty under Section 270A of the Income Tax Act, which is 200 percent of the tax levied. Further, the case of such employees may also be taken up for prosecution under Section 276C of the IT Act. |
