An association of Income Tax Gazetted Officers has claimed that the impending cadre restructuring of their department would lead to huge shortfall in direct tax collections as in its current form the exercise is likely to create a lot of vacancies and therefore the process needs to be modified to initiate faster filling up of future vacancies for ensuring greater revenue generation.
The Income Tax Gazetted Officers Association (ITGOA) on Thursday in a press conference claimed that the cadre restructuring of the department will not be helpful in improving taxpayer services and the overall revenue collection as promotion of officers will be stuck.
President of the association Sitarama Rao told media persons that in 2008-09 when negotiations within Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) had started on restructuring the department, a total of 1,360 posts were be created so the tax collections are met as per schedule.