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11th January, 2021

Secretary’s Report

Respected Members,

At the outset, I on behalf of the Executive Committee would pray before the Almighty for

healthy and happy life of each and every person of this universe.

You are well aware that for more than nine months we are passing through a very bad

phase of time due to the world-wide outbreak of COVID’19 which has given a big jolt to our

day to day life.

2020 has pushed you off your seat and collapsed the world that you know so mercilessly.

Hope 2021 is the year where you will get to re-create who you are.

We met with you in the last A.G.M. on 20.09.2019 and since then more than a year has

passed away, but our normal life is jeopardized due to the pandemic, However our

Executive Committee under the able leadership of our President, Sri S.K. Tulsiyan, has risen

to the occasion and undertaken various social activities as well as stood by the side of our

beloved members as the situation so demanded.

We had our 90th Annual General Meeting on 20th September, 2019 and since then we have

undertaken the following programmes :-

(i) We have arranged a family get-together on the occasion of Bijoya, Diwali & Eid on

8th November, 2019 at West side Pavillion, beside Nicco Park, Salt Lake.

A cultural function was arranged where our members had taken part along with the songs

of a professional group followed by sumptuous dinner. The members present there enjoyed

the evening thoroughly and we are sure that they will keep it in their memory for years to

come. Our Vice-President Sri Makhan Ch. Halder and Committee Member, Sri Siddhartha

Ray were the main architects behind the cultural function.

(ii) We had organized a fellowship dinner on 28th November, 2019 at Conclave in

honour of the Hon’ble Vice-President and the Hon’ble Members of I.T.A.T. with our

Members.

There was a musical programme followed by dinner which was enjoyed by all the

participants.

(iii) We had also organised a dinner party on 10th January, 2020 at Conclave to felicitate

the newly elevated Chief Commissioners, the Director General and the Principal

Commissioners of Income Tax wherein also there was a musical soiree followed by dinner.

Many of our members were present in the said felicitation programme.

(iv) Our Annual Garden Party was held on 12th January, 2020 at SIMA Village Resort,

New Town, Kolkata wherein a large number of our members along with their family had

enjoyed the day in a beautiful garden under the bright sun-shine. The day was full of fun

and frolic and the participants had taken part in various friendly competitions and won

various prizes, besides enjoying mouth-watering food throughout the day. My sincere

thanks goes to Sri Anikesh Banerjee and Sri Sapan Kumar Roy apart from all the members

who actively took part in this annual event.

(v) We had organised a Symposum on the topic “Appeals before CIT (Appeals) - Legal

Implications and Technicalities” at our Bar Library Hall and speakers were Sri Manoj

Kataruka, Sri Paban Kumar Roy and Sri Siddhartha Roy. A large number of our members

took part in the said discussion.

(vi) We had further organised a symposium on 6th February, 2020 at our Bar Library

Hall to discuss about the Finance Bill, 2020 and the speakers were Sri Sajan Kumar

Tulsiyan, Sri Soumitra Choudhury, Sri Manoj Kataruka and Sri Rites Goel.

The members were immensely benefited by the valuable discussions held in the said

programme followed by high-tea.

(vii) The entire Executive Committee was invited by the Income Tax Department in the

Interactive Session with the Hon’ble Finance Minister of India, Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman on

9th February, 2020 at Oberoi Grand along with other associations and trade bodies and we

were really proud that our President, Sri S.K. Tulsiyan was the first speaker in the said

programme and he had given some valuable & effective suggestions which were later on

duly considered by the Finance Ministry.

(viii) We had planned for the first time in the history of Income Tax Bar Association,

Calcutta to organise an International Tour at Bhutan under the able leadership of our Vice-

President, Sri Anup Kumar Ghosh and a record number of participants had enrolled their

names to enjoy the trip.

But ‘Man proposes but God disposes’. The entire world started feeling the heat of Covid ‘19

and after careful consideration of the situation in a meeting with the intending participants

we were compelled to cancel the tour on 11th March, 2020 and about 60% of the package

amount deposited by the participants along with railway fare were duly refunded back in

the meantime to the participants. But the balance amount got stuck in the advance amount

paid for hotel booking and for Transporation, which are not yet settled.

(ix) We had achieved another milestone on 14th March, 2020 when we arranged a day

and night friendly cricket match between Hon’ble Vice-President (EZ), I.T.A.T. - XI Vs.

President, Income Tax Bar Association, Calcutta - XI at the prestigious Mohun Bagan A.C

ground.

Many of our members along with their family witnessed the match with tea and snacks,

followed by dinner at the end of the match.

Hon’ble V.P. and other Members had enjoyed the evening in playing cricket with our

members and such a glorious experience would be remembered by all for years to come. I

convey special thanks to our member Sri Somnath Ghosh who had taken all the pain in

arranging the ground and securing necessary permissions from the competent authorities.

(x) From 22nd March, 2020 we started experiencing a separate way of life due to

COVID’19 and for the first time we heard some new words like Social/Physical Distancing,

Quarantine, Containment Zone, Lock-down, Unlock etc. and suddenly the whole world

came to a standstill due to a virus which is unknown to the scientists and doctors.

Due to the sudden unexpected lockdown, the under privileged persons, who are especially

dependent on their daily earning became at a loss to arrange two square meals in a day.

We, being the oldest tax bar in India, thought it prudent to rise on the occasion as a part of

our social responsibility and immediately joined hands with Lyons Club, Kankurgachi to

feed the poor and down-trodden people from very next day i.e. 23.03.2020 and our

President, Sri S.K. Tulsiyan immediately contributed ten lakhs for the purpose. We

appealed to all our members to extend their hands and forty-two members of our

association generously donated apart from donations from two corporate organisations.

We fed about 2,76,000 people over forty days continuously spreading over twelve police-

stations and we are really thankful to the Executive Committee and General Members of

our Association, Kolkata Police. The K.M.C., specially the Borough-3 and Lions Club of

Kankurgachi for successful achievement of our venture.

The life-line of any institution is its members and we have heard that some of our members

are facing some financial problem due to lock-down and immediately we decided that we

will grant one-time financial assistance to the members Rs. 5000/- who will express

his/her willingness to avail the benefit and their names will be kept secret.

Again before Durga Puja we announced that the members, who have not availed the

opportunity earlier may apply for financial assistance of Rs. 5,000/- and in two phases we

have stood by the side of fifty members.

It was really a life-time experience for all of us. We have never faced this type of pandemic

earlier which is still continuing and we are slowly habituated to a new way of life.

We have donated Rs. 3,00,000/- to PM CARES FUND, Rs. 3,00,000/- to W.B. State Disaster

Management Fund and Rs. 2,00,000/- to Army Battle Casualty Welfare Fund as a part of our

duty to the nation.

We came across with another new term “WEBINAR” and gradually we become habituated

to it.

We arranged five webinars the details of which are enumerated below:-

(a) 1st WEBINAR ON 10TH JUNE, 2020

Topic - Tax Practice - Some Musings

Speaker: Sri R.V. Easwar, Retired Judge of Delhi High Court

& Former President of I.T.A.T.

Anchored by: Sri Vijay Shankar, C.I.T. (DR) I.T.A.T.

(b) 2ND WEBINAR ON 14TH JUNE, 2020

Topic - Black Money Law - Some Knotty Issues

Speaker: Sri J.P. Khaitan, Senior Advocate, Calcutta High Court

Chaired by: Sri P.M. Jagtap, Hon’ble Vice President, I.T.A.T., Kolkata Zone

(c) 3RD WEBINAR ON 17TH JUNE, 2020

Topic - Concept of Settlement under Income Tax Act, 1961

Speaker: Sri A.K. Jaiswal, Chairman, Settlement Commission

Anchored by: Sri Mithilesh Jha, Commissioner of Income Tax (Exemption)

(d) 4TH WEBINAR ON 20TH JUNE, 2020

Topic - The Development of Case Laws from Independence to Present Day -

Evolving Legal Landscape of India

Speaker: Sri Mukul Rohatgi, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India

& Former Attorney General of India

Anchored by: Sri Biswanath Jha, Principal Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, West

Bengal & Sikkim.

(e) 5TH WEBINAR ON 27TH JUNE, 2020

Topic - Equalisation Levy - The New Paradigm

Speaker: Sri Ajoy Vohra, Senior Advocate, Supreme Court of India

Anchored by: Sri Ashis Verma, Chie Commissioner of Income Tax, Udaypur

We are thankful to Sri Siddhartha Mukhopadhyay of TAAB and Sri R.D. Kakra of Legal Relief

Society who had extended their hands of support in organising the webinars.

A large number of our members and other professionals had joined in those webinars and

enriched with lucid and thoughtful deliberations.

I am happy to announce that ten new Annual Members and nine new Life Members are

inducted in our association since last AG.M.

It is also very satisfying that in spite of Covid’19 our members had come forward to clear-

up their dues and Rs. 1,52,000/- is collected as subscription from April, 2020 upto the date

of preparation of this report.

In this year we could not organise Bijaya, Diwali and Eid get together in our Bar Library

and we were compelled to organise it in virtual platform where many of our members

joined and performed on 11/12/2020, I express my gratitude to Smt. Sangeeta

Chakraborty and Sri Siddhartha Roy for organising the whole programme very efficiently.

As per direction of the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India, Bar Council of India has asked all

bar associations in India to furnish details of their members in a particular format which

was a herculean task during pandemic, but we were able to complete the same within the

stipulated time and sent it to both W.B. Bar Council and Bar Council of India and I am really

grateful to Sri Siddhartha Roy, Sri Paban Roy, Sri Tapas Kumar Jana and Sri Indrajit Roy for

their active support in preparing the list.

We had created the official WhatsApp group on 21.11.2019 which had made it easier for us

to communicate regarding various activities and news about our Bar Association to the

members and I convey sincere thanks to Mr. Mosaraf Hossain for his sincere effort to create

the group.

OBITUARY

It is really very painful for me and the association that we have lost twelve of our precious

members since last A.G.M.

At the fag end of 2019 we have lost our beloved members Sri Parag Ranjan Banerjee on

20th December, 2019 and his condolence meeting was held on 27th December, 2019.

Sri Gosai Krishna Das left us on the very 1st day of 2020 and his condolence meeting was

held on 08/01/2020 at our Bar Library.

Sri N.K. Poddar, Senior Advocate and legendary figure in the taxation field passed away on

25/05/2020 and the virtual condolence meeting was held on 02/06/2020 and virtual full

court reference was held on 05/06/2020.

Sri Sukhendu Prasad Choudhury (Khoka Da) who was the former President and father

figure of our association passed away on 08/06/2020 and the virtual condolence meeting

was held on 12/06/2020 and virtual Full Court Reference was held on 19/06/2020 to pay

tribute to the departed soul.

Sri Dulal Chandra Chakraborty died on 16/04/2020 and the virtual condolence meeting

was held on 01/07/2020.

Sri Shyamal Kumar Mukhopadhyay left us on 25/06/2020 and his virtual condolence

meeting was held on 01/07/2020.

On 4th September, 2020, we have lost two of our members Sri R.P. Sharma and Sri Bikas

Gupta. Sri Sharma’s virtual condolence meeting was held on 09/09/2020 and Sri Gupta’s

on 10/09/2020.

Sri Nemai Moulik left us on 07/11/2020 and the virtual condolence meeting was held on

12/11/2020 to pay tribute to the departed soul.

Sri Lalji Chaubey, our veteran member and Member of W.B. Bar Council left us on

25/11/2020 and the virtual condolence meeting was held on 02/12/2020 to pay befitting

tribute to the departed soul.

Sri Dilip Kumar Mukhopadhyay had an untimely death on 14/11/2020 and the virtual

condolence meeting was held on 20/11/2020.

We have lost Sri Subrata Roy Choudhury on 04/12/2020 and the virtual condolence

meeting was held on 09/12/2020.

I wish that New Year 2021 will bring joy and happiness in our life and wish you all the best.

Thank you all,

Yours sincerely,

HIMADRI MUKHOPADHYAY

(Secretary)

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Nomination Paper for Election of Office Bearers / Committee Members

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The Secretary

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