TA & Hills Minister chairs meeting
Source: The Sangai Express / DIPR
Imphal, January 11 2021:
Tribal Affairs and Hills Minister Vungzagin Valte chaired a meeting on the issues of Income Tax deduction at his office chamber today.
Letkhogin Haokip, ACS (TA&H), Paulunthang Vaiphei, ACS, Link Commissioner of GAD and Income Tax and TA&H officials attended the meeting.
In the meeting, the importance of tax payment and the challenges related in obtaining a tax exemption certificate with only one-year validity were deliberated thoroughly.
Understanding the difficulties related to obtaining the tax exemption certificate for the tribal people of the State, especially those residing in the remote places, the meeting decided to write a letter to the Principal Chief Commissioners of Income Tax to prescribe a simplified procedure for claiming deduction of Tax at known sources at a Lower/Nil rate.
It is also decided the DDOs of the department of Government of Manipur and its PSUs shall intimate the exempted list of employees on the record of their service books to the Income Tax office, Imphal at the time of the assessment year.
The employees who needed an exemption certificate under section 197(1) for different purposes can still apply through the Income Tax department, the Minister said.
It may be mentioned that all deserving Schedule Tribe government employees residing in specified areas are exempted from paying Income Tax under section 10 (26) of Income Tax Act, 1961 .
But it has been made mandatory to produce a certificate issued under Section 197 of the IT Act to avail the exemption which creates problems to the ST employees.