New Delhi: Overwhelmed by the workload on account of growing number of assesses, annual information returns and duplicate PANs, the Income Tax Department is soon likely to seek Government approval for recruiting around 10,000 field workforce.
The additional staff is likely to cost around Rs 200 crore to the Government exchequer, Finance Ministry sources said.
A note to this effect has been prepared and will be sent to the Government for approval shortly, the sources said.
The whole process is likely to be completed expeditiously through special recruitment, they said. Once an approval is received, the biggest challenge for the department will be to recruit the required skilled workers, the sources said.
The number of assesses is expected to touch 3.50 crore this year, up from 3.10 crore last year, the sources said, adding the increased workload also comes from a rise in the number of information on high spenders, technically called annual information returns (AIRs).
The IT Department has received 18.84 lakh AIRs for 2005-06 about high spenders on seven broad areas, including cash deposits with banks exceeding Rs 10 lakh in a year, credit card payments exceeding Rs 2 lakh annually, investment in shares over Rs 1 lakh and so on.
The work pressure is also more due to the department's drive to do away with duplicate PAN cards by December 31.
The department has appealed to the estimated 13 lakh duplicate PAN card holders to surrender their cards by December 31, after which it would start canceling them, the sources said.
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