CJI, AG moot revamp of I-T laws

"We need to do away with the provisos and explanations and plug loopholes in the enactment" to make it simple for the tax payers "so that they change their attitude for better compliance of law", he said adding "ambiguity of legislation is always counter productive".

Presiding over the function, Sorabjee said "In view of ambiguities in Income Tax law, ordinary citizen are completely at loss. The law needs prolific amendments to bring simplicity and coherence". Justice Anand also said that attempt should be made to reduce the heavy backlog of cases as the citizen must get "unpolluted, quick and inexpensive justice". Tribunal president V Dongzathang said the institution was making all out efforts to reduce the backlog of cases and said these could be reduced by about 25 per cent if a stage of appeal in the high courts against the tribunal was abolished.