Were Income Tax returns for AY 2019-20 designed by a ghost?
Were Income Tax returns for AY 2019-20 designed by a ghost?
On July 18, 2019 I submitted an application No. DGITS/R/2019/50093 to the
Director General of Income Tax (Systems) ,New Delhi seeking information as follows:
1. Name and designation of officer who designed Schedule CG (capital gains) of ITR2 for assessment year 2019-20.
2. Name and designation of officer who designed B4 (for long-term capital gains on sale of shares of Indian companies) of Schedule CG (capital gains) of ITR2 for assessment year 2019-20.
3. Name and designation of officer who approved the design.
4. Name and designation of officer who developed the utility for ITR 2 for assessment year 2019-20.
5. Name and designation of officer who approved the utility for ITR 2 for assessment 2019-20.
The information should be available at the main office of DGIT (Systems) , New Delhi. However, it was marked to the Central Public Information Officer (CPIO), CPC Bengaluru who replied on Aug 8, 2019 that information was not available with him. He did not bother to forward the application to the CPIO who has the requisite information. Nor did
This is height of irresponsibility on the part of DGIT (Systems) as well as CPIO, CPC Bengaluru.
Some one must have designed Income Tax Returns with all the schedules and some one must have developed utilities.
Date of birth: January 1, 1941
Educational qualification: Master of Arts (First Class) in Political Science
Visiting Fellow: (one year, 1978-79), University of Oxford, UK.
Job Experience:
Teaching job: Lecturer in Political Science, Patna University (February 1963 to October 1965)
Indian Revenue Service: November 1965 to December 2000.
Important positions held in Government of India: Head of the Project Appraisal Division (Planning Commission), Head of the Project Monitoring Division and Joint Secretary/Additional Secretary (Department of Programme Implementation), Chief Commissioner of Income Tax and Member, Appellate Tribunal for Forfeited Property.
Retired from Government of India on December 31, 2002, as Member, Appellate Tribunal for Forfeited Property.
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International Experience: Indian member of Inter-governmental committee on project management system by the Commonwealth Secretariat in 1985; Member of Indian delegation to the (erstwhile) Soviet Union (1986)
Area of expertise: Project Management (ex-ante Project Appraisal, CBA, Monitoring, ex-post evaluation).
Experience as author:
Co-author of a book on Indian Constitution in 1970 (now out of print);
More than two dozen articles on different aspects of project management;
11 stories (10 satirical and one serious) in English and Hindi, published in leading magazines and a leading Hindi newspaper.
Presently writing articles on social, political, economic and administrative issues available on my website and LinkedIn.
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