The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has cancelled leave of all officials on tax collection duty and ordered 24×7 functioning of its offices till March 31 in order to collect the remaining revenue of over Rs 50,000 crore before the end of the current financial year.

The direct taxes target for the current fiscal is Rs 6.36 lakh crore. As of March 20, the I-T department needs to further achieve a net collection of Rs 50,204 crore before the current fiscal closes this month end.

CBDT, during a recent meeting, ordered that all “assessing officers and additional commissioners, commissioners and chief commissioners involved in assessment work and collection of taxes shall not leave their headquarters till March 31”.