FIELD DEMONSTRATIONS-Ineffective Show-pieces

March 9, 1974 returning their income. The proposal now made that salary earners getting Rs 1,500 a month and less would not be required to submit returns is a mere sop and does not meet this" point. It only relieves the Income-Tax Department of some bother and that too only if one accepts that these returns were at all being attended to it in the past. That consideration apart, the cost to the exchequer is conservatively estimated at Rs 30 crores of just this provision.