Tax payer's appeal
I am a retired government servant. During my long service-tenure of three decades no itching palm disturbed me. I submitted my tax-returns regularly for a good number of years. When no tax was imposed on my income for five successive years, my tax adviser instructed me not to submit returns any more. After retirement I started living on my tax-free pension and the profit of a few Bonus Sanchaypatra (10% of the profit earned was regularly deducted). For the last three years, I have been earning a small amount every month for my participation in television programmes on a private channel. The channel authorities regularly deduct tax on that earning of mine.
I want to submit tax returns once again and be sure if I am to pay any further tax on my income which has always been lawful. I would earnestly request the government to kindly give me a last chance to declare my lawful income during the last three years and pay the due income tax (if any) without any fine or penalty. Thousands of honest and law-abiding citizens like me, who have not paid taxes in the past due to ignorance, lethargy, fear or other reasons, will be benefited if they are given a last chance without penalty.
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