Keep taxpayers in the loop before you act: Court to Income Tax department

Senior citizens, technophobes, many NRIs, and the plain forgetful types may be blissfully unaware that the Income Tax department is coming after them without informing them by an email or letter. They are clueless that the tax office has initiated action by simply posting the show-cause notice or summon on the department’s e-portal. Such assesses who don’t check the tax portal regularly – in fact, few do – may be in for shock and penalty. But how fair is this?

Read more at: The Economic Times