Resentment Letter to FINMIN

Summarised By PracticeGuru dated: 8th Jan, 2021

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This is the summary article of main points of Resentment Letter written by Chartered Accountants Association, Surat dated 6 Jan, 2021

Income Tax Department’s actions are ultra-vires the Citizen’s Charter which talks about fair, courteous and reasonable treatment to the tax payers.

Chartered Accountats' and support staffs' health is deteriorating due to continuous work pressures. Reason is downtime or frequent changes in systems of ITD, GSTN or MCA21.

There is little recognition of CAs' efforts by government or their clients.

There is a kind of bossism from government officials while exercising their powers.

There is a need for Professional relations committee between Chartered Accountants and Officers of government.

Government servants are ignoring the communication from Chartered Accountants and their bodies associations. A formal reply is accepted.

There is new trend of issuing 1000s of Notifications by Government departments, for eg in GST there are 1004 notifications in 1285 days, almost 1 per day.

Extension of due dates is not handled well. It has badly affected Small and Medium Professionals.

Existing deadlines of ITD, GST, ROC result into serious labour law violations.

Whether or not Limitation Act applies to routine compliances under Income Tax, GST or ROC, the order of Hon’ble Supreme Court should be taken up in the spirit in which it was issued i.e. Public Safety

1. People’s Government should avoid Tax Terrorism, an atmosphere where tax payers are threatened by the stick of law in a times when both time and health are important.

2. Quality of Govt Tax and Compliance Webportals is not up to the mark.

3. Every year ITR and related forms are notified late. Utilities of Income Tax as well as GST are released late which should be avoided.

4. ITR processing is getting complicated with requirements of new details every year and it should stop.

5. Frequent changes in ITR utilities is not acceptable.

6. The 4% of population which pays tax should not be treated badly.

7. Continuous issuing of notifications should stop.

8. Recommendations of GST Council should be acted upon faster.

9. Continuously hammering tax payers and other stakeholders with intimations, notices, and reminders even on holidays should stop.

You may read the full letter here

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