SC frowns on delay in income tax department appeals

By IANS,

New Delhi : The Supreme Court Monday asked the government to streamline the Income Tax (I-T) department’s working to check delays in challenging adverse verdicts related to tax demand orders.


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The apex court bench of Chief Justice S.H. Kapadia and Justice A.K. Patnaik said that the government should also put in place a monitoring mechanism so that streamlined apparatus did not go onto inertia.

The court’s observation came during a hearing on a case involving the Citi Bank N.A. during which the I-T department claimed that the delay in filing an appeal was not “intentional or deliberate”.

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