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Income Tax Department issued an Advisory on Phishing, Fraudulent Refund E-mail

Sony — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 09:37:30 +0000

Income Tax Department issued an Advisory on Phishing, Fraudulent Refund E-mail

Taxpayers are requested not to respond to any email or any type of communication sent to them requesting them to furnish their personal particulars such as Bank account details, passwords, OTP etc. purported to be from the Income Tax Department.

The Income Tax Department does not seek any such information through email or any other mode of communication from the taxpayers.

If you have received any such fraud mails, kindly do not respond and register a complaint by forwarding the actual phishing email as per procedure and details given in http://www.incometaxindia.gov.in/Pages/report-phishing.aspx

Advisory :
If you receive an e-mail from someone claiming to be the authorized by Income Tax Department or directing you to an Income Tax website:

Do not reply.

Do not open any attachments. Attachments may contain malicious code that will infect your computer.

Do not click on any links. If you clicked on links in a suspicious e-mail or phishing website then do not enter confidential information like bank account, credit card details.

Do not cut and paste the link from the message into your browsers, phishers can make link look like real, but it actually send you to different websites.

Use anti-virus software, anti spyware, and a firewall and keep them updated. Some phishing e-mails contain software that can harm your computer or track your activities on the internet without your knowledge. Anti-virus & Anti-spyware software and firewall can protect you from inadvertently accepting such unwanted files.

Reporting:
If you receive an e-mail or find a website you think is pretending to be of Income Tax Department, forward the e-mail or website URL to phishing@incometax.gov.in. A copy may also be forwarded to incident@cert-in.org.in

You may forward the message as received or provide the Internet header of the e-mail. The Internet header has additional information to help us locate the sender.

After you forward the e-mail or header information to us, delete the message.

If you receive a phishing mail not pertaining to the Income Tax Department, forward the same to incident@cert-in.org.in

Authority: https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in/

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No Extension in Due Date of Filing of Returns and Audit Report – Clarified by Income Tax Department

Sony — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 08:08:48 +0000

No Extension in Due Date of Filing of Returns and Audit Report – Clarified by Income Tax Department

No Extension in Due Date of Filing of Returns and Audit Report; Due Date Continues to be 30th September, 2015; Tax Payers and Practitioners are Advised not to give any Credence to any Fake or Fraudulent Order about Extension of Date

The Income Tax Department has clarified that circulation of Fake order dated 26.9.2015 for extension of due date for filing of Audit report and return of Income for Assessment Year 2015-16 is fraudulent. The Government has not extended the due date for filing of returns and audit report due by 30th September 2015. Tax payers and practitioners are advised not to give any credence to the fraudulent order.

It has been brought to the notice of the Government that a fake order dated 26th September 2015 supposedly under Section 119 of the Income-tax Act 1961 under the signature of one Upmanyu Reddy, Under Secretary to the Government of India is in circulation. The fake order extends the due date for filing of audit report under section 119 of the Income-tax Act to 15 October 2015.

It is clarified the order is fraudulent. The Government has not extended the due date for filing of returns and audit report due by 30th September 2015. Tax payer and practitioners are advised not to give any credence to the fraudulent order purportedly signed by one Upmanyu Reddy.

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Special Counters to file I-T Returns; for the next 5 days at Income Tax Office

Sony — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 13:04:32 +0000

Special Counters to file I-T Returns; for the next 5 days at Income Tax Office

“Special counters have been opened at Chennai’s Income Tax Office in order to handle the last minute rush. These counters will function for the next five days starting August 27”.

Special counters to file Income Tax returns already opened in New Delhi being open including Saturdays and Sundays. Now, special counters have been opened at the Income tax office in Chennai Nungambakkam to enable the general public to file their tax returns.

These counters will start functioning from Thursday (August 27), until August 31. Taxpayers within the limits of Chennai can file the tax returns between 9.30 AM to 5.30 PM on all days, including Saturdays and Sundays. Those with taxable incomes of less than Rs.5 lakhs per annum and pensioners can file their returns.

Online method of paying taxes: Those within the limits of Tambaram can file their tax returns at the Tambaram Income Tax Office. Details and information regarding the office at which the returns have to be filed are available on www.incometax.gov.in. Taxpayers must provide details including PAN Card number, bank account number, IFSC Code and their mobile phone numbers.

Those with income over Rs.5 lakhs and those seeing refunds shall necessarily file the returns online for the Financial Years 2014-15 and 2015-16.

Senior citizens and differently-abled persons: The rules have been relaxed for those over the age of 80. They can fill up the returns and submit them at the counters. Special counters have been created for senior citizens and differently-abled persons.

Assistance counters, assistant income tax assessors, UTI counters, counters in nationalized banks to pay income tax, and PAN card verification counters will also function.

For further details and clarifications regarding filing income tax returns, please contact the Public Relation Officer at 044-28338314

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Extension of due date of filing return of income for Assessment Year 2015-16

Sony — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:20:56 +0000

Extension of due date of filing return of income for Assessment Year 2015-16

G.I., Department of Revenue, Central Board of Direct Taxes, O.M.F.No.225/154/2015/TA.II, dated 10.6.2015

Order under Section 119 of the Income-tax Act 1991

Subject- Extension of due date of filing return of income for Assessment Year 2015-16 – regarding;

The Central Board of Direct Taxes, in exercise of powers conferred under section 119 of the income-tax Act. 1961, hereby extends the ‘due-date‘ for filing Returns of income, in terms of clause (c) of Explanation 2 to sub-section (1) of section 139 of the income-tax Act 1961, for Assessment Year 2015-16 from 31st July. 2015 to 31st August, 2015 in respect of income tax assessees concerned.

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I-T officers not too happy with new promotion rule: The Hindu Business Line

Sony — Wed, 17 Sep 2014 16:52:07 +0000

I-T officers not too happy with new promotion rule: The Hindu Business Line

Better days are ahead for income tax officials, as the Government will soon notify amendments in the recruitment rules. This will facilitate promotions and direct recruitment, as approved under the cadre restructuring plan.

However, the Gazetted Officers Association of the Income Tax Department is not happy, as it wants the new posts of assistant commissioners to be filled in one go, through promotions.

“The Department of Personnel and Training is expected to issue amendments in the recruitment rules very soon,” a senior Revenue Department official told BusinessLine.

On May 23, the Cabinet approved the proposal for creation of 20,751 additional posts in the Tax Department. This includes 1,349 posts in the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) cadre and 19,402 posts in the non-IRS cadre.

Due to some procedural issues, the Department is facing vacancies at various levels. When the Cabinet approved the creation of additional posts, it permitted, as a one-time measure, filling up these posts through promotions, without amendments in the recruitment rules.

Accordingly, among others, 26 officials were promoted to the newly created grade of ‘principal chief commissioners of income tax’.

Now, 17 out of these 26 officials have retired. To top it, there are already four vacancies for members at the board level (sanctioned strength of seven, including Chairman). These vacancies are affecting decision making in the Department. As on August 1, posts vacant at the level of the chief commissioners stood at 30, principal commissioners at 330, commissioner at 208 and additional/joint commissioners over 700.

But, the real issue is at the level of assistant commissioner of income tax (ACIT), the entry level for Group ‘A’ service. Two sets of people are appointed at this level – those in the IRS and income tax officers. The cadre restructuring exercise decided to create 166 additional regular posts and 620 additional reserve posts at this. Along with 563 vacancies arising out of promotions at a higher grade, a total of 1,349 additional posts were created.

While all other newly created posts are to be filled in one go, for the assistant commissioner level, the condition is that additional posts are to be filled over five years. Every year, half of the posts are to be filled by direct recruitment and the remaining through promotions.

“This will leave most of the newly created posts at assistant commissioner level vacant for the first four years,” said Ajay Goyal, President of the Income Tax Gazetted Officers Association.

He said nearly 600 officers were awaiting promotions since the past 14 years, and will now have to wait longer. In the last cadre restructuring in 2001, around 1,000 additional posts of assistant commissioner were filled through promotions, he added.

Source: The Hindu Business Line

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