Union Finance Minister, Arun Jaitley exhorted the officers of the Income Tax Department to maximize the use of innovative and non-intrusive methods of investigation. He impressed upon the need for skill development and up-gradation to keep pace with newer and innovative methodologies adopted to evade taxes. The Finance Minister Shri Jaitley emphasized that the Department should equip itself with the State of the Art technological skills, including, in the area of analysis of digital evidence. The Finance Minister Shri Arun Jaitley was addressing the meeting of Directors General of Income Tax (Investigation and Intelligence & Criminal Investigation) and Chief Commissioners of Income-Tax (Central) here today.
On the occasion, Finance Minister observed that the quality of representation of cases of Income Tax Department before various courts of law needs to be improved. He stressed upon devising mechanisms to attract the best talent and build expertise in the specialized subject of taxation. The Finance Minister Shri Jaitley also impressed upon the need of imparting training to the middle level officers in order to improve their forensic skills to successfully deal with new tools of technology being used for tax evasions. The Finance Minister also called for taking necessary steps to adopt the emerging methods of capacity building.
The meeting was attended along with the Finance Minister by Shri Shaktikanta Das, Revenue Secretary, Chairman and Member (Investigation) CBDT, Directors General of Income Tax (Investigation and Intelligence & Criminal Investigation) of different Regions and Chief Commissioners of Income-Tax (Central) along with other senior officers of the CBDT among others.
Speaking on the occasion, Shantikanta Das, Revenue Secretary appreciated the sensitivity of the tasks assigned to the Investigation Directorates and advised the officers to be firm and fair in their approach towards the tax payers.
Earlier Shri K.V. Chowdary, Member (Investigation), CBDT, highlighted the performance of the Investigation Directorates in Financial Year 2013-14 in the major areas of their functioning including, inter-alia, search and seizure operations, surveys, widening and deepening of tax base, action on intelligence inputs received from other agencies of the Government.
(Source PIB)
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