Question

essay on the role of income tax department in the building of the nation in about 1500 words

Answer 1

The Income Tax Department, also referred to as IT Department, is a government agency in charge of monitoring the income tax collection by the Government of India. It functions under the Department of Revenue of the Ministry of Finance.It is responsible for administering following direct taxation acts passed by Parliament of India.

The IT Department is also responsible for enforcing the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements and deals with various aspects of international taxation such as Transfer pricing. Finance Act, 2012 seeks to grant Income Tax Department powers to combat aggressive Tax avoidance by enforcing General Anti Avoidance Rules.

Income Tax departments raided various illegal tax-evasive businesses in Delhi, Mumbai, Chandigarh, Ludhiana and other cities that traded with demonetised currency.The Enforcement Directorate issued several FEMA notices to forex and gold traders.[7] Large sum of cash in defunct notes were seized in different parts of the country.In Chhattisgarh liquid cash worth of ₹4.4 million (US$68,000) was seized.

In 2016, December the Income Tax department,received more than 4000 emails, on black money holders, in India, within 3 days, when Income Tax Department, issued in public notice an email to report black money.

Answer 2

                     Role of Income Tax Department in Nation Building

 

Everyone wants facilities, better life conditions, advanced infrastructure, and general prosperity; however no one is genuinely interested to work to create them. This arduous role of creating these facilities, better life conditions, advanced infrastructure, and general prosperity and development requires lots of funds and capital which no individual can provide or afford. The Government shoulders this responsibility. And the tool that the Government uses to collect and amass this whopping amount of funds and capital, is the tool of income tax.

 

Funds and capital are not evenly divided among the people of a country. Some have abundant funds; some have moderate funds; some have meager funds, and some have almost no funds. The Government itself has no funds or capital; it generates funds and capital from taxes. Income tax is the most potent and effective medium to collect these funds from people according to their capability and affordability to pay the tax. The Government levies higher income tax on those who earn more. People who earn moderately, moderate income tax is levied on them and people who earn very little, no income tax is levied on them.

 

Though people generally pay their income tax quite unwillingly, they fail to see that the revenues collected from income tax are directly spent on the national projects of development.  It may be laying new roads or railways in the country’s less developed areas, states or provinces; it may be buying new defence equipment for the safety of the country; it may be setting up new heavy industry units; it may be providing subsidized fertilizers or LPG cylinders to the poor people of the country; it may be sending new rockets and satellites into the space; it may be constructing new hydel, solar, nuclear, or thermal power generation units across the country; all projects of national development are run and financed by this revenue collected from income tax.

 

Besides, contributing to national development and security, income tax creates equality among the citizens of the country. It is a wonderful tool. And we must pay our income tax honestly for the prosperity of our nation.