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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 88 lakh missing tax filers in year of noteban: I-T denies, facts don't -Khushboo Narayan

88 lakh missing tax filers in year of noteban: I-T denies, facts don't -Khushboo Narayan

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published Published on Apr 5, 2019   modified Modified on Apr 5, 2019
-The Indian Express

Stop filers are individuals who filed returns in earlier years but did not do so in the current year even though they are liable to do so.

The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Thursday said it “does not have any word ‘Stop Filers’ in its glossary and it does not maintain any database of ‘Stop Filers’ in normal course”.

This was in response to the April 4 report “88 lakh taxpayers didn’t file returns in year of noteban, 10-fold jump over previous year” published in The Indian Express. The spike in the number of “stop filers” in financial year 2016-17 reversed a four-year trend, the report said.

Stop filers are individuals who filed returns in earlier years but did not do so in the current year even though they are liable to do so.

Officials said that this surge, in the year of demonetisation, could be attributed to loss of jobs, falling income and low economic activity.

In its press statement, CBDT said, “CBDT also wishes to make it very clear that the information about ‘Stop Filers’ is incorrect and the data source quoted is not from the Income Tax Department.”

The CBDT’s statement doesn’t match with facts.

For one, the data on stop-filers was obtained by The Indian Express from sources in the Income Tax Department.

Two, a memo of CBDT itself, dated April 22, 2016, clearly refers to “stop-filer/non-filer” as one of the “commonly used terms relating to direct tax administration”.

That’s not all.

The term “stop filers” has also been used in various internal discussions and even in reports submitted to Parliament.

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The Indian Express, 5 April, 2019, https://indianexpress.com/article/india/88-lakh-missing-tax-filers-in-year-of-noteban-i-t-denies-facts-dont-stop-filers-5659508/


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