Tightening its noose on those who do not pay taxes, the Income Tax Department has started sending letters around 12- lakh assessees who are high spenders but do not file returns, a top finance ministry official said.''The I-T department has started follow up of around 12-lakh assessees who have not filed their returns despite being high spenders,'' the official told PTI. The department had earlier issued letters to 1.75-lakh high priority assessees for not filing tax returns.Finance minister P Chidambaram had met top I-T officials on Tuesday to discuss ways to augment revenue collection and widen the tax base.The tax department has prepared a list of non-filers based on their information records.
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