CBDT Terminates 21 IT Officers On Charge of Corruption & Bribery

On the government’s order, 21 income tax officers have been compelled to retire under Fundamental Rule 56(j), as the officials incriminated of extortion and other malfeasance acts.

Under Fundamental Rule 56(j), government officials can be mandatorily retired in public interest on notice of not less than three months. These officers have been forced to retire because they were found misusing the official position to solicit and receive bribes. The Central Bureau of Investigation caught many Income Tax officials All the unaccounted income and not paying up the taxes will not be fruitful from now onwards as the tax department has made it clear that it will be important to pay the income tax..

According to the reports, these officers who have been terminated from their jobs in the last announcement were discovered to have asked for or received bribes starting from INR 20,000 and going till INR 65 lakh. Some tax officials were captured with an enormous amount of unaccounted money.

These officials were from the Income Tax Service, Group ‘B’ and held the rank of Income Tax Officer. They have been removed from offices in Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Thane, Rajkot, Jodhpur, Visakhapatnam, Bikaner, Bhopal, Hazaribag, Ujjain and Sawai Madhopur.

This is not the first time in the year 2019, that group Group B officers of the rank of Income Tax Officer have been compulsorily retired by the Central Board of Direct Taxes. Since July, 85 IT officials have been terminated from service when the government directed a crackdown on dishonest and errant officers. Among these officers, 64 officials were posted on high ranks while 12 of them were from the IT department.

15 officials of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes These types of taxes paid on Consumption by the consumer but they do not pay directly to the government (unlike income tax). For example, GST, Sales Tax, VAT, Custom Duty and Octroi Tax and Customs (CBIC) were also removed by the government on account of malfeasance, criminal conspiracy and bribery.

The measure was an execution of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement on the Independence Day at the Red Fort this year. He announced the termination of “black sheep” existing in the tax board.

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The term “black sheep” signifies the tax officials who wrongfully use their position & power to trap & badger the genuine taxpayer or to take excessively stringent action against the taxpayer for small procedural misdemeanors.

“We have taken the bold step of compulsorily retiring a significant number of tax officials, and we will not tolerate this type of behavior,” statement made by PM.