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The department can search residential and business premises of any taxpayer to check records and valuables to ensure that no evasion of tax is taking place. Section 132 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 provides the department the power to conduct search and seizure.
It can also be obtained in the form of a PDF file known as an e-PAN from the website of the Indian Income Tax Department. A PAN is a unique identifier issued to all judicial entities identifiable under the Indian Income Tax Act, [1] 1961. The income tax PAN and its linked card are issued under Section 139A of the Income Tax Act.
Each tax deductor is uniquely identified by a TAN. The first three characters represent the city or state where the TAN was issued. The fourth character represents first character of the name (company, firm, individual, etc) of the deductor. And the next 5 characters are numerics. And Last character is a letter.
In India states earn revenue through own taxes, central taxes, non-taxes and central grants. [1] For most states, own taxes form the largest part of the total state revenue. [1] Taxes as per the state list includes land revenue, taxes on agricultural income, electricity duty, luxury tax, entertainment tax and stamp duty. [2]
The Income Tax Department is the central government's largest revenue generator; total tax revenue increased from ₹ 1,392.26 billion (US$16 billion) in 1997–98 to ₹ 5,889.09 billion (US$67 billion) in 2007–08. [3] [4] In 2018–19, direct tax collections reported by the CBDT were about ₹ 11.17 lakh crore (₹11.17 trillion). [5]
Direct tax in the form of an income tax was introduced by Sir James Wilson in India in 1860 to overcome the difficulties created by the Indian Rebellion of 1857. [12] The organisational history of the Income-tax Department, however, starts in the year 1922, when the Income-tax Act [4], 1922 gave, for the first time, a specific nomenclature to various Income-tax authorities.
The Chief Commissioner of Income Tax Central, abbreviated as CCIT-C, is the revenue enforcement agency of the Central Board of Direct Taxes, Government of India which assesses tax evasion. It functions under the Department of Revenue in the Union Ministry of Finance and is concerned with the administration, assessment, enforcement and ...
The Investigation Division of the CBDT, abbreviated as Inv-CBDT, is the revenue enforcement agency of the Central Board of Direct Taxes, Government of India.It functions under the Department of Revenue in the Union Ministry of Finance and is concerned with the collection and administration of, as well as enforcement and prosecution of cases related to, the various direct taxes accruing to the ...