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Bribe Or Visit Again!
During 1978 an ITO Agarwal
summoned me to Hisar for assessment. I was apprehensive about systems at
metro city and preferred to keep my file at Hisar itself. However, too
learned officer directed me to revisit Hisar after a week, with an application
to transfer the file to Delhi. He refused to accept such application at
the same session and also my contention to send such application by registered
post. Obviously, I had been penalised for not going in for bribed assessment.
A person practising medicine without
holding requisite qualification is termed a quack. If that definition applies
to other fields, I have been practising quackery in too many. Let us take
an instance of law. The file mentioned in the above instance was eventually
transferred to Delhi and income tax assessed. Just about zero % serious
and fully willing to pay Rs2000 tax with any penalties, I drafted an appeal,
affixed 50 paise court fee stamp and sent the same by ordinary
post. After a few months, I appeared before
Assistant Commissioner and the reverred Sardarji accepted my appeal. When
confronted with ITO for compliance of the appeallate order, the ITO demanded
the proof of my contention. I pleaded, "Sir, during assessment I produced
every document you desired and I could produce. Now this is not the stage
at which proof can be demanded. My contention of omission in the order
has already been upheld and I just want compliance." The ITO just stared
at me and directed me to run away with refund. Subsequently, I filed appeals
- quite seriously - in another IT assessment (appeal upheld by an extremely
polite and sweet sardarni ji) and in wealth tax assessment (order was beyond
my knowledge of English. The appeal was stated to be only
technically upheld - I did not pay tax and
no one questioned me or demanded tax for three decades - obviously the
order words too complicated for other WTO's too). All the three appeals
were upheld without any professional aid. I overenthusiastically announced
that I could find bonafide faults with most IT assessment orders. I was
quite sure I was entitled to represent others, without any qualification/registration,
just as I would represent my wife - I did not implement my thoughts, however.
With appointments and postings sold on Cash & Carry basis, most ITO's
do not know how to draft income tax orders. The
information may be stunning but many ITO's and STO's gather conventional
bribe, dispose of the file. Along with assessment order they also give
COOPERATING receptionist or secretary - anticrime agencies refuse to recognise
it as a part of sex trade.
With compliments from
Dr K Chaudhry
USA Supermall
B-1/104, Paschim Vihar, New Delhi-110063
Tel : 42316457, 98105-71993