Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee earlier this month approved the proposal for deputing the officials at the Paris-headquartered body as advisors.
Some radio taxi operators are avoiding service tax payments, forcing the revenue department to take necessary steps, including coercive measures, to recover the dues, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.
The taxman wants the mascot, which will be used in all communications and publicity purposes of the department, to be 'captivating' and 'inspiring', particularly to the young and future taxpayers.
Computerisation of the Income-Tax Department has played a key role in raising tax compliance and higher tax collections over the past few years.
The I-T department is now checking the account books and financial documents of select Reebok dealers in India, to whom it is issuing notices.
Government on Tuesday said it will soon come out with a new Income Tax Code to streamline the taxation structure and reduce the plethora of exemptions given to various segments of taxpayers. The new tax code would become law after debate and deliberations. Direct tax code would replace the existing Income Tax Act, which was enacted in 1961 and would subsume other direct tax legislations. Together with indirect tax exemptions, direct tax exemptions are leading to revenue loss.
Buoyed by a 60 per cent growth in income tax collection in Mumbai, Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Friday said he expected the country's financial capital to do even better in the next fiscal.Mumbai is the third city to have an LTU after Bangalore and Chennai. Delhi and Kolkata would be the next centres to have LTUs which provide single-window to corporate to pay all central taxes.
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