Faceless tax scrutiny, appeal system to help ease taxpayers’ compliance burden: Sitharaman

14 Aug 2020 Evaluate

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said that the faceless tax scrutiny assessment and appeal system would help ease compliance burden of taxpayers and increase fairness and objectivity in the tax system. She noted that the government has launched the platform 'Transparent Taxation – Honoring the Honest' which provides for launch of faceless assessment and adoption of a taxpayer charter.

Sitharaman has stated that the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), which administers personal income tax and corporate tax, will also launch faceless appeals beginning September 25, as part of the process to reduce physical interface between tax officers and taxpayers.  She noted that today is a landmark day in the history of tax administration, and added that the vision of the government is to empower the taxpayers, to provide a transparent system and to honour the honest taxpayers.

The minister further said to realize this vision, the CBDT has given a framework and put in place a system in the form of this platform, a transparent efficient and accountable tax administration is what this platform brings in. It uses technology, data analytics, and also uses artificial intelligence. It eases compliance burden, it brings in fair objective and a just system, there shall not be any physical interface between the department and the tax payer and to an extent it shall bring in certainity of Information. She added that the Income Tax department has undertaken several reforms, including lowering corporate tax rate from 30 percent to 22 percent for existing manufacturing units. 

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