This is in reply to a letter which appeared in your paper by a sales tax auditor proclaiming his innocence. Yes, he is correct that it is not only the auditor but his/her superiors are also in cahoots in bribery and extortion. All these claims of transparency by the sales tax auditors are wrong.
The very purpose of the sales tax audit is to create an environment of fear and to blackmail the person being audited with the threat of creating big bogus sales tax arrears demands.
The person so audited has no choice but to give in because if he does not, then a bogus demand along with penalties is created and a show cause notice is issued forthwith.
The recourse is a hearing before the adjudicating authorities who are the auditor's god fathers and they decide the cases on merit only if a percentage of the bogus demand created is paid to them as bribe.
The story does not end there as the department then threatens to appeal before the Appellate Tribunal again consisting of their own fellow brother officers.
This can be subverted if bribe money is paid to the officers at the legal department who then sit with the files until the appeals become time barred.
This audit business is so lucrative that even MBBS doctors opt to become auditors and within one year of becoming an auditor acquires a Corolla and the latest model of a mobile phone. I am willing to testify if I am provided immunity from persecution and victimisation.
The government should announce the formation of a forum where victims like me must be offered amnesty for coming forward with proofs of the wrong-doings of the sales tax auditors, who must be called "Dakoos" instead of auditors.
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