The Chief Commissioner of Income Tax Central, abbreviated as CCIT-C, is the revenue enforcement agency of the
Central Board of Direct Taxes,
Government of India
The Government of India (ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, ...
which assesses
tax evasion
Tax evasion is an illegal attempt to defeat the imposition of taxes by individuals, corporations, trusts, and others. Tax evasion often entails the deliberate misrepresentation of the taxpayer's affairs to the tax authorities to reduce the tax ...
. It functions under the Department of Revenue in the
Union Ministry of Finance and is concerned with the administration, assessment, enforcement and prosecution cases of the various
direct tax
Although the actual definitions vary between jurisdictions, in general, a direct tax or income tax is a tax imposed upon a person or property as distinct from a tax imposed upon a transaction, which is described as an indirect tax. There is a di ...
es accruing to the
Union Government
The Government of India ( ISO: ; often abbreviated as GoI), known as the Union Government or Central Government but often simply as the Centre, is the national government of the Republic of India, a federal democracy located in South Asia, ...
. Its main job is to assess and provide valuable inputs to the intelligence wings of the government related to tax evasion.
See also
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List of Income Tax Department officer ranks
The following are ranks of the officers working in the Income Tax Department of Ministry of Finance (India). Officers are appointed from two different recruiting agencies. Gazetted officers are appointed from Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) ...
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Civil Services of India
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Directorate Of Revenue Intelligence
Income Tax Department of India