Income Tax notices on the Bachchans

14.06.06 Working in a Chartered Accountants’ firm which specializes in Income Tax matters, I can say that Income Tax notices being sent to the Bachchans are no big deal. The Income Tax Department is in the habit of sending such notices to all and sundry in an almost mechanical way. The Department is supposed to work without being overawed by any assessee. It has simply to go by the facts and figures before it. The Bachchans too need not loose any sleep over such notices. They only need to tell their Chartered Accountants to get to work on them notices. And between the CA and the IT Dept. there is a bondage of convenience that makes their relationship an affair that stretches on and on till both have fatted on the eager-to-win-the case assessee and when the affair concludes in the distant future, all the three characters in the drama would continue with their lives as if nothing happened.