Launch of Income Tax Business Application (ITBA) - investigation Module (Phase-1) - Income Tax - System/ITBA/Instruction/ Investigation/6249/2015-16

F.No. System/lTBA/Instruction/investigation/6249/2015-16 DIRECTORATE OF INCOME TAX (SYSTEM) ARA Center, Ground Floor, E-Z, Jhandewalan Extension, New Delhi - 110055 Dated: 05.04.2016 To, All the Principal Chief Commissioner or Income-tax (By Name) All the Principal Director General or Income-tax (Investigation), DGsIT(Inv.) (By Name) The Director General of Income-tax (I Cl) (By Name) All the Chief Commissioners of Income-tax (By Name) All the Principal Directors of Income-tax (Investigation), DsIT(lnv.) (By Name) All the Principal Commissioners of Income-tax, CsIT (Administrative) (By Name) All the Principal Commissioners of Income-tax, CsIT (CO) (By Name) Sub.: Launch of Income Tax Business Application (ITBA) - investigation Module (Phase-1) Madam/ Sir, 1. This is with reference to the subject mentioned above. The functionality for recording the pending investigation proceedings (TEP, STR and any Other Investigation) in the offline excel utility and recording the details of PD account and Strong Room into the system has been rolled out in the first phase of Investigation Module in Income Tax Business Application (ITBA) w.e.f. 04.04.2016, 2. The Investigation Module under ITBA can be accessed by entering the following URL in the browser: http://itba.incometax.gov.in The path for Investigation module is: ITBA Portal Login Modules Investigation 3. The following functionalities shall be available through lTBA - Investigation Module in the first phase: (a) Offline excel utility is provided to record the details of pending Investigations for TEP, STRs and other investigations (other than those in which search has been conducted). The excel offline utility contains basic validations to enable the user to provide clean data for further processing in the system. (b) The facility to upload the excel utility in the system will be provided in the subsequent phase of Investigation module. Users are advised to complete the recording of pending investigation proceedings in offline excel utilities for further uploading the same once the upload functionality of excel utility is rolled out. (c) The recording of pending investigations in the offline excel utility will be done by the concerned DDIT/ ADIT / ITO (Inv.) with whom the proceedings are pending. In case some investigation is being conducted by the Addl. DIT/ JDIT(lnv.) himself, he will prepare the excel utility for such cases which will be uploaded with his credentials into the System. (d) To enable online maintenance of PD Accounts and Strong Room operations, functionality to record details of deposits and withdrawal/ release of seized cash/ asset Is provided. DIT (Inv)/ HQ of DIT (Inv) or CIT/ HQ of CIT will have facility to record the details of their respective PD Account in ITBA. Similarly DIT (Inv)/ Custodian of Strong Room or CIT/ Custodian of Strong Room will record the details of their respective strong room. (e) The recording of transactions in PD Account/ Strong Room shall be done in the following manner:. (i) Recording of Balance as on the cut off date: The balance available in PD Accounts (after withdrawals/ release) as on the date of cut off for each assessee, separately for each search seizure proceeding, is required to be entered. (ii) Deposits after the cut-off date: The details of deposits (including amount/ value transferred-in from any other PD Account/ Strong Room) after the cut off date will be entered. (iii) Withdrawal/ Release after the cut-off date: The details of withdrawal (including amount/ value transferred-out from the PD Account/ Strong Room) after the cut off date will be entered. Withdrawal shall be allowed only against the respective deposit entry. (f) The Cut off Date for the recording of PD Account Balance and Strong Room Balance is 31.03.2016. (g) MIS Reports- There shall be a facility for viewing and generating various MIS in respect of PD Account and Strong Room balances, Relevant users will be able to view various reports. The MIS is accessible through Investigation Home Page. The path for the same is Investigation MIS Reports 4. Relevant users will need their individual name based department email IDs and RSA tokens. The user name and passwords will be communicated on their respective email ID, The log-in to the system will be through the user name and password (sent on individual email ID) Along with the RSA token over the Taxnet nodes. Users are advised to contact their/respective RCC Admin for name based department email ID. 5. Users on Windows XP system are advised to download the Chrome (version 43) or Firefox (version 36) browser (if unavailable) from ITBA Portal Download Pre-Requisites to access the new ITBA application. 6. Training material including user manual, help content and frequently asked questions (FAQs) are available on the Investigation Module Home Page and on ITBA Portal Online Training on ITBA. Users can refer these in case of any issues. 7. Users are advised to contact helpdesk in case of any issues in respect of the ITBA. a. URL of helpdesk - http://itbahelpdesk.incometax.net b. Help desk number- 0120-2772828 - 42 c. Email ID - [email protected] d. Help desk Timings - 8.30 A.M. - 7.30 P.M. (Monday to Friday) Yours faithfully, (Ramesh Krishnamurthi) Addl.DGIT(S)-III, New Delhi