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Look Who is Crying “Tax Terrorism” and What Are the Facts

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Aahana Ashi
Look Who is Crying “Tax Terrorism” and What Are the Facts

In the article, we have argued how the increase in the tax collection elucidates that the trust of people on the government has increased since they might be convinced that the tax paid by them will be used by the administration with due diligence.

These reports give an impression that the government is punishing the taxpayers even for the slightest mistakes.

Perhaps knowing the psychological effect such reports can cause on common people, the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has issued statement to assert that the news of “en masse issue of prosecution notices to small companies for TDS default is completely misleading and full of factual inaccuracies.”

A report from Times of India on January 20, 2019, was titled, Income-Tax officials given targets for serving notices for TDS default.

Another report from the same newspaper, on the same day, headlined as Thousands of taxpayers get notices for minor defaults.

Perhaps taking a cue from all these news reports, former finance minister P Chidambaram has termed these reported actions by the tax department as “tax terrorism”.

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