Srinagar, Apr 7: MP Singh, 1990 batch of Indian Revenue Service (IRS) has been promoted as Chief Commissioner of Income Tax J&K and Ladakh headquarter at Srinagar with effect from April 1 by the Department of Personnel and Training and Central Board of Direct Taxes, New Delhi.
Singh was posted as Principal Commissioner of Income Tax, J&K, and Ladakh for the past two and half years and has given meritorious services to J&K for 10 years as Deputy Commissioner from 1993 to 1999, as Commissioner (Appeals), Jammu from 2018 to 2021 and then as first Principal Commissioner of Income Tax, Srinagar. He is likely to continue as Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, J&K and Ladakh till his superannuation.
He has also served in various capacities in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, North Bengal/Sikkim, Gujarat, and Delhi where he handled Supreme Court matters of the Income Tax Department.
He was a key person of the department in conducting parliament elections in Baramulla and Budgam districts in 1996 heading more than 250 teams of the department from north-west region and Delhi.
Singh is known for taking various social initiatives, and outreach programmes for creating awareness for the environment and plantation.
Soon after the assumption of charge of Chief Commissioner, he urged his officers to resolve long pending grievances of the taxpayers of J&K and Ladakh by holding camps in each district and major towns.
He has ordered officers to release the bank accounts of small businessmen and salaried persons, in whose case infructuous demands have been created during assessments, which had been attached by the department to enforce recovery of outstanding tax demands.
He has urged the taxpayers of the region to keep their accounts truly and pay their income tax correctly as the department has full knowledge and data of their turnover and other financial transactions.
Singh has also urged the chartered accountants & tax professionals of J&K to take the initiative and create awareness amongst the taxpayers including salaried persons. They should organize regular seminars and workshops with businessmen and in various institutions like colleges, universities, hospitals, medical colleges, government departments, with police and para-military organizations and inculcate a sense of financial discipline amongst them besides sharing information on the latest tax provisions so that businessmen and salaried people do not get into the trap of touts by claiming wrong deductions or filing inaccurate particulars of income.
This way tax professionals can greatly contribute towards nation-building and save innocent taxpayers from unnecessary harassment of litigation.
MP Singh thanked the media for the positive and effective role played in this direction. He has asked taxpayers to send their grievances at his email pcit.srinagar@incometax.gov.in or visit local income tax offices for redressal of their grievances or seek information about their obligations & tax provisions.