Income Tax Day Celebration on July 24

GUWAHATI: Income Tax Department celebrates July 24 as the Income Tax Day to mark the anniversary of the creation of the first authority to administer income tax in India in the year 1860. To celebrate this day, Kavita Jha, IRS, Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, North Eastern Region is organizing an array of activities that would include tableaus, street plays, interaction with school students, tree plantation drive and distribution of informative pamphlets.

Taxpayers are the bedrock of any nation and the Income Tax Department considers them as partners in nation-building. In keeping with this spirit, officers and staff of Income Tax Department of NER have come together to contribute towards a consignment of 10,000 kg of flood relief materials to some of the worst affected victims and areas of floods in Assam. The relief truck shall be flagged off by Kavita Jha, from Aayakar Bhawan, the HQ of the Department in North East, on Income Tax Day.

Income Tax Department is responsible for administering direct taxes laws in India such as the Income Tax Act, Black Money Act and Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act. Direct taxes collection broke all records in the financial year 2018-19 and crossed Rs. 11 lakh crore marks. In recent years, the department has taken big strides in making tax administration more efficient and citizen-friendly. Introduction of e-filling of taxes, online viewing of the tax credit, online tracking of a tax refund, Aayakar Sewa Kendra and Aayakar Sampark Kendra are some of the initiatives taken for modernization of tax services. (PIB)

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