After sending notices to 1.21 million Permanent Account Number (PAN) cardholders who had not filed their income tax returns, the income tax department has now identified another 2.17 million potential non-filers. It had already sent letters to 50,000 potential non-filers in the first batch.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has now conducted the second round of data-matching, which has identified an additional 2.17 million potential non-filers. The information has been gathered from sources including Annual Information Returns, Central Information Branch data and Tax Deducted at Source or Tax Collected at Source returns. The first round of data-matching located 1.2 million non-filers. The Department’s Compliance Management Cell and assessing officers have since contacted many of these non-filers and 536,220 returns have now been received, yielding INR10.2bn in self-assessment tax revenue and INR8.98bn in advance tax.
