Surprisingly, the Income Tax authorities have found that Drawing and Disbursing Officers in the State Departments, Public Sector Undertakings, and Corporate Houses across the State have become defaulters by not either filling in the mandatory Tax Deduction at Source (TDS) return or filing it beyond the specified time. There are about 10,000 of such cases. They were required to file TDS returns in Form No. 27 EQ but failed to do so. According to Income Tax rules, a fine of Rs. 200 per day is imposed for delaying the filing in of the return beyond the specified date. The number of such defaulters is almost one half of the total DDOs in J&K. The Income Tax Department thinks that 15 to 20 per cent DDOs of various organizations in the State are not filing the returns at all and the department will be taking action against these in due course of time.
It is rather difficult to understand why the Drawing and Disbursing Officers of various Government Departments, PSUs and Corporate Houses do not submit the returns in time while they are efficiently managing deduction of income tax at source from the salaries of the employees of the organization. An ordinary employee of these concerns does not know whether the account of income tax deducted from his salary at source has or has not been deposited in the treasury under proper procedure. Inefficiency at the level of DDOs is unacceptable because it casts aspersions on the tax payer at the root and the entire system of income tax organization.
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