Can anybody tell me that Harrashment by the Dept.Official may be stopped anywhere .Sir , if the assessee makes any default in any of the provisions under any of the act there is a provision in the law to penalise him but whether is there any provision to penalise any officers for issueing wrong notices and they try to implement forcefully their words or ignore all the evidence submitted before them ? in govt. offices everybody try to safe himself and he do'nt want to go against the revenue and pass the same to his higher authority resulting no.of cases lying pending before the court . If our community as a legal will try that there must be a provision to penalise the concerned officers who issued wrong notices even ignored all the related fact produced before him as provided in RTI Act. Overall somebody has to think and try to stop these activities by the department officials .
28 October 2009
You have sated what many frustrated tax payers think. Targets for the tax officers + need to create a nuisnace value are the base causes of harassment. Slowly with e filing and finally e cases the role of the beuracrat wouldbe limited. However if awarding of costs can be made part of the GST/ DTC then the harassment would certainly stop.