https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=12049 Entitlement to reward for informers depends on the departmental guidelines and on furnishing qualitative, definite information that enables identification of the evader and recovery of unaccounted money and tax. Payment becomes due only after actual recovery and completion of assessment-related proceedings, and any subsequent statutory process may still run before reward is released. The court noted that civic-minded conduct supports the claim, while a predominant profit motive would undermine public-spiritedness, but entitlement ultimately turns on the guidelines and recovery condition. It recorded the Department's assurance against undue delay and declined to fix a specific time limit for payment. en-us Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:39:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=12049 Entitlement to reward for informers depends on the departmental guidelines and on furnishing qualitative, definite information that enables identification of the evader and recovery of unaccounted money and tax. Payment becomes due only after actual recovery and completion of assessment-related proceedings, and any subsequent statutory process may still run before reward is released. The court noted that civic-minded conduct supports the claim, while a predominant profit motive would undermine public-spiritedness, but entitlement ultimately turns on the guidelines and recovery condition. It recorded the Department's assurance against undue delay and declined to fix a specific time limit for payment. Case-Laws Income Tax Wed, 25 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=12049