Inland revenue chiefs continue to swindle even after retirement!

 Sunday, 20 October 2013 

Many past commissioner generals of the Department of Inland Revenue who are now on retirement continue to provide revenue consultancy services to the companies that had patronized them during their tenures in the department, in a daylight swindling of the tax revenue owed to the state, say Inland Revenue Department sources.

One of them, on the verge of retirement, took oaths as a lawyer and now appears on behalf of private companies and against the Inland Revenue Department. It is former commissioner general Mahinda Medagoda who is acting thus in breach of the law of natural justice.

The incumbent commissioner generals being his juniors, the retired commissioner general gets them to provide tax relief to the companies which patronize him. He has done so during the tenure of former commissioner general Kandegedara, and is still at it, by using the present commissioner general Mallika Samarasekara.

The state has lost millions of rupees of tax revenue due to the improper, unethical conduct of Mahinda Medagoda and other former commissioner generals. Await a detailed special report on this soon…