21000 Fresh Vacancies in Income Tax Department: Coming Soon
There
has been huge shortage of manpower in Income Tax Department for years
and IT department has been putting this as an excuse for the loss in the
tax collections over years. Few months back, a proposal was given to
government to hire tax personnel at various levels to boost tax
collections, which has been accepted now.
In
one of the largest-ever recruitment drives by a government agency, the
Union cabinet on Thursday cleared a plan to create 20,750 additional
posts in the Income Tax department, including revenue service officers,
as a part of a drive to step up scrutiny and increase annual collections
by Rs 25,000 crore.
After the meeting,
Chidambaram said the posts to be created as part of the cadre
restructuring exercise will include 1,349 additional posts in the Indian
Revenue Service. The recruitment is to be done over a period of time
and the decision will help the I-T department collect higher revenue and
provide better services to tax payers, the minister said.
The
tax department has for long complained of insufficient manpower
impacting collections. The latest move is expected to cost around Rs 450
crore annually. “This additional expenditure would be more than
compensated by the increased revenue of more than Rs 25,000 crore per
annum proposed to be generated as a result of this exercise,â€
Chidambaram said. TNN.
The recruitment in the
Income tax Department will be done at various levels, but, it is still
unclear whether this recruitment will be conducted through Staff
Selection Commission (SSC) or Income Tax Department will manage the
recruitment process on it own. Since, approval has been given for the
recruitment process, the details of the recruitment process will be made
public shortly.
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