The Income Tax Department, Department of
Revenue, Ministry of Finance has now conducted the second round of
data matching which has identified additional 21.75 lakh potential non-filers.
The Department has sent letters to the 50,000 potential non filers in the first
batch.
The information relating to the 21.75 lakh new non-filers has been made
available on the ‘Compliance Module’ on the e-filing portal of the Income Tax
Department. The information will be shown only to the specific PAN holder when
the PAN holder logs into e-filing portal at https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in.
The PAN holder will be able to submit the response electronically and keep
a print-out of the submitted response for record purposes.
Earlier the Income Tax
Department
had
initiated a business intelligence project in February, 2013 to identify PAN
holders who have not filed Income Tax Return and about whom specific
information is available in Annual Information Return (AIR), Central
Information Branch (CIB) data and TDS/TCS Returns. In the first round of data
matching, 12.19 lakh non-filers were
identified. Letters have been sent in these cases by the Compliance Management
Cell and Assessing officers seeking the response of the taxpayer. The results
of this initiative is very encouraging and 5,36,220
returns have been received from the target segment. Self assessment tax of Rs.1017.87 Cr. and advance tax of Rs. 898.22 Cr. has also
been paid by the target segment.
While the Government urges all
tax payers to disclose their true income and pay appropriate taxes, the Tax Department
would continue to pursue the non filers vigorously till all the high potential
non filers are covered.
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DSM/MJPS/KA
(Release ID :104094)
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