Filling of Returns by
every Government Servant -
Income Tax
Government
Servant
à¤ारत सरकार /Government of India
आयकर विà¤ाग/Income Tax
Department
आयकर आयुक्त चेन्नै-3 का
कार्यालय, चेन्नै
Office of the Pr.
Commissioner of Income Tax-3,
Chennai
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4th
Floor, Main Building, 121,
Mahathma Gandhi Road, Chennai-
34.
P.N.DEVADASAN, IRS
Principal Commissioner.
Chennai
19/06/2018
To
The Drawing &
Disbursing Officer
O/O Dy.
Director of IT(INV) Unit III
139, IOC Bhavan I Floor IOC
Bhavan Nungambakkam High
Road Nungambakkam Chennai -
600034
Dear Sir/Madam,
Sub:
Filing of Returns
by every Government
Servant - Reg.
As
you might be aware, every
person who is having income more
than
Rs.2,50,000 is bound to file
his/her return of income. This
includes the
Government Servants also.
However, the data of returns
filed indicate
that more than 50% of the
Government Servants at Chennai
are not filling
their income tax returns. I
hope, you will agree that as
government
servants, we should abide by
laws and to be role models to
the common
citizens of our country. If we,
Government servants ourselves
are
violating law by not filling our
income tax returns, we don’t
have any
moral right to blame other
sections of society.
From this year i.e
Assessment Year 2018-19
onwards, the Parliament has
amended the Income
Tax Act by introducing a new
section 234F for imposing late
fee on every
person who is not filling
his/her return of income within
the due date.
For salaried employees, the due
date is 31-07-2018. This means
all the
salaried employees have to file
their returns of income for the
Financial Year 2017-18
(Assessment Year 2018-19) on or
before31-07-2018.
Otherwise they all mandatorily
have to pay late fee amounting
between
Rs.1,000 to Rs.10,000 as per the
provisions of Section 234 .
Also, a
penalty of Rs.5,000 can be
imposed under section 271F on
them. In
addition to this, they can be
prosecuted under section 276CC
of the
Income Tax Act for jail
termsvarying between three
months to seven
years.
It may please be noted that
these provisions are applicable
to all the persons having gross
income (excluding deductions)
above
Rs.2,50,000/-. It is understood
that many persons who are
claiming
deductions under section 80C
etc. (on GPF contribution, Life
Insurance
Policies, Housing Loan Repayment
etc.) and adjustment of Interest
on
Housing Loan are under the
impression that they need not
file the return
as their net income is below
taxable limit and no TDS is
deducted from
their salary.
Therefore, I request you to
kindly intimate and
advice all the employees to whom
the gross salary paid in the
last year
is more than Rs.2,50,000 to file
their returns of income before
31-07-2018. It may also be noted
that all the incomes earned by
an
employee such as rental income
(including subletting of
house/s),
interest incomes, dividend from
Co-operative societies and all
such
incomes should be declared in
their returns of income. Later,
if found
to have omitted any such
incomes, they are liable for
separate penalty
and prosecution for concealing
those incomes.
A copy of this
letter may be handed over to
each of your employees who draw
their
salary through you. You may also
discuss this issue with the Head
of
your Office/Department and
request him/her to issue a
circular to all
the employees to file their
return of income well in
time.
In case
of any clarification or
suggestions, you may please
contact the
following Officers: Joint
Commissioner Smt. Sumathy
Venkataraman
(8762300298), Assistant
Commissioner Ms. N. Abhinaya
(8939744880), Smt.
Priya Ramakrishnan, ITO
(9445954906), Shri
Sundaramurthy, ITO
(9445955554), Smt. Malarvizhy
Kujur ITO (9962383336) or Shri
V.
Baladandayutham, ITO
(9445954896).
Yours faithfully,
(P.N.DEVADASAN)
Source: Confederation
