In a last-ditch effort to meet revenue targets, the Income Tax Department on Friday said it has identified 21.75 lakh new "potential non-filers", and urged all tax payers to disclose their true income and pay appropriate taxes.
The department had initiated a business intelligence project in February 2013 to identify PAN holders who have not filed I-T Return and about whom specific information is available in Annual Information Return (AIR), Central Information Branch (CIB) data and TDS/TCS Returns.
"The Income Tax department has now conducted the second round of data matching which has identified additional 21.75 lakh potential non-filers... The government urges all tax payers to disclose their true income and pay appropriate taxes," the Finance Ministry said in a statement.The department has already sent letters to the 50,000 potential non-filers in the first batch.The information relating to the 21.75 lakh new non-filers has been made available on the 'Compliance Module' on the e-filing portal of the I-T Department, the statement added.