Over Rs 4.18 lakh cr outstanding in income tax arrears till Dec: Chidambaram

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PTI: New Delhi, Mar 12 2013, 15:42 IST

Income Tax arrears outstanding at the end of December, 2012 totalled over Rs 4.18 lakh crore, Finance Minister P Chidambaram said today.

"The total income tax arrears outstanding as on December 31, 2012 are Rs 4,18,696 crore," Chidambaram said in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha.

This includes tax arrears of Rs 1,16,773.77 crore by major defaulter Hassan Ali Khan, Chandrika Tapuriah (Rs 47,040.99) crore and (Late) Harshad S Mehta (Rs 17,050.56 crore, he said.

The government has constituted a Special Cell to exclusively deal with recovery of arrears classified as "Assessee not traceable" and "Assessee with no assets/ inadequate assets for recovery".

"As a result of recovery measures undertaken by the Income Tax Department, total amount of Rs 16,686 crore has been collected during April 1, 2012 to December 31, 2012, which includes Rs 4.65 crores due to the efforts of the Special Cell," Chidambaram said.

The Finance Minister further said that the raising of demand and collection of outstanding taxes is a continuous process and all out efforts are made by the Income Tax Department to collect the outstanding taxes.

"As tax arrear is not a static concept, it is not possible to recover in full at any given point of time," he added.

Meanwhile, Minister of State for Finance S S Palanimanickam in reply to another question said arrears of indirect taxes was Rs 68,741.02 crore in 2011-12 and Rs 56,889.62 crore and Rs 44,212.23 crore, in the two previous fiscals, respectively.

Targets for recovery of arrears relating

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raj | 14-Mar-2013Reply | Forward

Why Govt not publish -the age wise outstanding of amount of tax outstanding. - age wise outstanding of refund amount. -respect and honour the people who contribute to growth of country by giving maxium tax during the financial year. - publish the name of person who making the default in payment of tax so that his creditworthy known to public. - name of person who continue default in payment of tax. - no of return file and assess during the financial year - other data, as deem fit by Govt to bring out the transprency in transaction in Govt department particular revenue department - step taken to make the reveue department as positive thinker for example , presently , every advertisement of income tax depart/revenue is negative image , instead making of tax payer as partner of progres, treat as thief of tax. why govt advertised by making the tax payer as partner of the progress unlike present advertisement where they see as tax thief.