Wednesday, January 4, 2023

Cold war between the rulers and officials of Ahmedabad municipality? Tax scam case in discussion again

Ahmedabad: A cold war seems to be going on once again between the rulers and officials of the Metropolitan Municipality. ASM Revenue Committee Chairman Jainik Vakil has been forced to write to the Commissioner for the investigation report on the tax scam that took place in March. Despite making a written request to the officer thrice as to where the investigation report of the tax scam that took place eight months ago has reached, no response is being received. So have once again written a letter to the commissioner. So it has become a topic of discussion in the ASM premises that the officers of the authorities do not clash.

Wrote reminder letter thrice

ASM Revenue Committee Chairman Jainik Vakil said that the tax scam took place in the months of March and April 2022. A complaint has also been registered. Although eight months have passed, even today no update on the investigation of the incident has been given by the administrative department. Having to write a reminder letter three times. Even though eight months have passed since this incident, no proper action has been taken.

What was the whole scandal?

It is to be noted that, last March-April, a huge scam of AMC tax department was revealed. There was an online scam of paying tax without paying money in ASM. Cybercrime also complained to AMC following the scam. Following this incident, the AMC tax department suffered a loss of 2.39 crores. In it, 239 tax bills were falsified by using the password of a woman employee of the tax department who was on leave. The scam was done using ID and password of two female employees. In which the tax of the Ahmedabad Metropolitan Municipality was deposited but the money was not deposited in the coffers of the ASM, a scam came to light.

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A scam of crores of rupees was perpetrated

Road scams and health department scams keep happening in AMC. But now a huge online scam was exposed in the tax department as well. Online transactions have been done using the ID and password of the women employees of AMC. In preliminary investigation, 239 people zeroed their tax accounts without paying AMC money. As a result, ASM suffered a loss of 2.39 crores. Khokhra councilor Kamleshbhai Patel himself became the victim of the scam. The malpractice was committed in the same property which was purchased by the sale. The Deputy Commissioner of the South Zone Division and the Tax Officer made a written submission and informed about the malpractice. Then the whole scam came out. An employee named Rahul of a private agency committed fraud with money.

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