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I-T to begin internal audits for better revenue collection

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Press Trust of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Jan 24 2013 | 1:49 AM IST

The tax department's idea through these audits is to plug any leakages owing to various reasons and better its revenue collection.

The department would study the norms and practices followed for internal audit by diamond, construction, pharma and banking sectors in this regard.

The frequency of the audits could be annually or twice in an year.

The discussions were part of the deliberations during the recently concluded conference of I-T Chief Commissioners and Director Generals in the national capital here.

The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG), in its report tabled in Parliament in December last year, had said that it had "found several cases where the Assessing Officers (AOs) did not communicate updated information relating to demands to Tax Recovery Officers (TROs)."

"We noticed 1,54,198 cases involving outstanding demands of Rs 4,543.83 crore where the demand was not transferred to the TROs inspite of non-recovery for more than one year," the CAG report said.

The report on 'recovery of arrears of tax demand' also "noticed instances of non-disposal of arrear cases and differences in the figures of arrear demand in the books of the AOs versus TROs due to the lack of coordination between them." MORE

  

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First Published: Jun 14 2012 | 4:35 PM IST

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