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A simple thing in terms of improving business environment in India could be to stop officers from asking for the same documents again and again from citizens under different names like scrutiny, survey etc by same Government Dept. 
Let me give a couple of examples to explain my point: 
1. An ITO asks for submitting Audit report of a certain Assessment Year in the scrutiny when the same has been already available with the IT Dept. (as it has already been submitted).
2. An ITO asks for a copy of IT Challan paid to issue refund of a previous year whereas the payment of same is already reflected in Form 26AS.
Here what the ITO is doing is harassing the poor Income Tax payer under different names, asking him to visit IT office again and again under the guise of scrutiny or something else. This not only increases cost of the Govt but also of the Income Tax payer of compliance.
This is applicable to all the Government Departments.
A simple suggestion of stopping these officers from asking for information/documents already available with them again will help in:
1. Improving Governance
2. Improvement in ease of doing business
3. Stopping harassments of people
4. Reducing Govt expenditure

Comments

mahesh2k said…
The fact that my appeal with CIT(A) is pending for FIRST hearing for more than 32 months now says that the Dept is over burdened with work load. And still the CBDT and IT Dept is happy wasting time in calling for and reviewing documents which are already with them from poor tax payers...
I hope some day some body from the Dept. will think about it in a positive manner and make necessary provisions to stop this practise.. :(
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