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Restriction on practice in Commercial Tax and other cases after retirement

11. Restriction on practice in Commercial Tax and other cases after retirement:- (1) No Deputy Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Commercial Tax Officer Deputy Commercial Tax Officer or Assistant Commercial Tax Officer shall, during a period of five years from the date of his retirement from service, act as a Sales Tax Adviser or Consultant or accept any engagement to appear on behalf of any dealer in any sales tax proceedings any where in the State, without the previous sanction of the Government in the case of the Deputy Commissioner of Commercial Taxes or the Commercial Tax Officer and of the Commissioner of Commercial Taxes in the case of the Deputy Commercial Tax Officer or the Assistant Commercial Tax Officer. (2) No retired officer of the Commercial Taxes Department shall accept any engagement to appear on behalf of any dealer in any sales tax proceedings anywhere in the State if;- (i) the officer or authority before whom the retired officer is to appear was his official subordinate while in service; or (ii) the sales tax proceedings relates to an order passed by him or to a case with which he was in any way connected in his official capacity. (3) No pension shall be payable for such period as the Government may, by order, direct to any retired officer of the Commercial Taxes Department if he contravenes the provisions contained in clauses (i) and (ii) of sub-rule (2).Note :- (a) A condition should be incorporated in the terms of contracts executed on account of public works to the effect that it is liable for cancellation if either the contractor himself or any of his employee is found to be a Gazetted Officer who retired from service and had not obtained permission from the Government for accepting the contract or employment within a period of two years from the date of his retirement; (b) At the time of sanctioning pension of Engineers and other Gazetted Officers of the Public Works Department including Electricity Department, they should be required to sign an undertaking that they would not seek such employment (and set up or engage in a business or a Commercial undertaking as a principal) within a period of two years from the date of their retirement, without the prior permission of Government, and that in case of non-pensionable officers they should be required to sign a similar undertaking at the time they are paid the gratuity or other retiring benefits by Government.