CBI has initiated probe against three officials of Income Tax Department for facilitating fraudulent refund of TDS deducted for several assessees by misusing system access of senior officers, officials said on Sunday. The investigating agency registered an FIR against three Group C officers of Income Tax based on the complaint of Joint Commissioner of Income Tax, Muzaffarnagar, who managed to cheat the department by allegedly misusing the RSA tokens of the assessing officers. and generated fake refunds. Tax Deducted at Source (TDS).
RSA tokens are unique and time-synchronous solutions that automatically change a user’s password every 60 seconds.
After the FIR, the agency conducted searches at several places, he said. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has named three IT officials – Abhay Kant, Saurabh Singh and Rohit Kumar – in the case along with nine beneficiaries of the refund.
The tax department has alleged that the officials misused the RSA tokens of the Assessing Officers to work out and authenticate the generation of fake refunds payable to 11 assessees on the system, and amounted to Rs 1.39 crore between August 1, 2020 and August 25. More refund received. Fraud detected by 2021. He said the scam came to light when an Assessing Officer found out the computation of refund under section 154 of the IT Act, which did not pertain to his purview.
Orders under section are passed when any rectification in any order or processing is required either on the application of the assessee or by the Assessing Officer himself when some mistake is to be rectified, which is evident on the record , it alleged. These refunds were reported to be on AST (Assessment Information System), an old system and not on ITBA (Income Tax Business Application), on which the process has now been shifted from 2016.
It alleged, “Out of the total amount lost, about Rs 35 lakh was deposited back into the government accounts by the accused officers as the assessing officers in return for the demand of Rs 22 lakh recovered through coercive action against the beneficiaries.” did.’
“The total recovery so far by way of attachment of accounts of the assessees by the employees involved in the scam or by the Assessing Officers is Rs 57.31 lakh. The total outstanding amount including interest has been calculated to be Rs 94.39 lakh,” the complaint alleged.
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