The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has started an e-campaign for voluntary compliance of Income Tax rules on Monday, 20th July 2020. The campaign will be ending on 31st July 2020, after 11 days. The campaign has been started by the department for the convenience of the assessees and will be focused on the taxpayers who are either non-filers or have committed any kind of fraud in the returns filed for the financial year 2018-19. The department has made the move to encourage the assessees for voluntary compliance with Income tax rulers for return filing
The sole purpose of the campaign is to benefit the assessees. Under the campaign, the department will send an SMS/email to the identified assessees for verifying their financial information as received by the department from sources like Statement of Financial Transactions (SFT), Tax Deduction at Source (TDS), Tax Collection at Source (TCS), Foreign Remittances (Form 15CC), etc. Under information triangulation set up and data analytics, the department has also received and/or collected information regarding GST, exports, imports, and transactions in securities, derivatives, commodities, mutual funds, etc.,
The data has shown that there numerous assessees who have not recorded some high-value transactions while filing the returns for the assessment year 2019-20. The data has also shown that some of the assessees dealing in high-value transactions have not even filed their income tax returns
- Information is correct
- Information is not fully correct
- Information related to another person/year
- Information is duplicate/included in other displayed information
- Information is denied
The assessees are not required to visit any office of the department as the response can only be filed online. It should also be noted that the deadline to file the Income Tax Returns for the assessment year 2019-20 is 31st July 2020. The assessees are suggested that they should avail the benefit of the campaign for their benefit.