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Under unrelenting workload and high tax collection targets, nearly two dozen gazetted income tax officers have called it quits in this financial year alone.
“The situation in our department is really bad. There is a lot of work pressure. During this financial year, about 22-23 officers have left,” Income Tax Gazetted Officers Association (ITGOA) Vice President Bhaskar Bhattacharya told IANS.
Bhattacharya added that pressure has been mounting in the last few years.
The ITGOA is an association of over more than 9,500 promotee gazetted officers from across the country.
The lower tax collection has rung alarm bells among policy makers resulting in pressure on field officers to collect more revenues. The income tax department has so far managed to collect Rs 5 lakh crore in direct taxes, less than half of the total budget target of Rs 13.35 lakh crore for FY20.