New Delhi: The government is set to roll out a pan-India "faceless and nameless" e-assessment procedure for income tax payers from 2018 with the CBDT today constituting a high-level committee to prepare a quick roadmap for the implementation of this ambitious proposal.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the policy-making body for the Income Tax Department, notified a nine-member committee - headed by a Principal Chief Commissioner rank officer - and has set for it a deadline of February 28, 2018, for submitting its report.
"The deadline of February end to the committee is an indication that the government and the CBDT want to usher in this new regime from the first half of the new year," a senior tax officer privy to the development said.
The CBDT has been running a pilot project in a few major cities and has been testing the feasibility of implementing this new regime of tax assessment for the last few years.
"As such, there is an imperative need to re-deploy the available manpower in the light of the proposed e-assessment," the CBDT order said.
The terms of reference of the committee are to propose the new deployment of manpower in view of the implementation of e-assessment; to propose modalities and stages of re-deployment of manpower from existing stations and to recommend the requirements of additional manpower and infrastructure, if any, in the light of this new initiative.
A blueprint prepared by the CBDT earlier this year had said the number of income tax payers opting for paperless assessment, under the pilot project, rose by 78 per cent over the last three years.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had inaugurated the conference, had also asked I-T employees to create an environment that instills confidence among honest taxpayers and uproots corruption.
A new link-- e-proceeding -- was recently hosted by the department on the personal login of the taxpayer on the e-filing website (https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in).
The new regime of e-communication will, however, be voluntary and taxpayers can take a call on whether to conduct their dealing over the e-system or through the existing procedure of manual submissions of documents by visiting the tax office.
Once taxpayers register on the web portal, they will get a confirmation as a text message and an email on their registered mobile number and email ID, indicating success.
The functionality to conduct e-proceeding will be available for all types of notices, questionnaires and letters issued under various sections of the I-T Act, the CBDT had earlier said.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the policy-making body for the Income Tax Department, notified a nine-member committee - headed by a Principal Chief Commissioner rank officer - and has set for it a deadline of February 28, 2018, for submitting its report.
"The deadline of February end to the committee is an indication that the government and the CBDT want to usher in this new regime from the first half of the new year," a senior tax officer privy to the development said.
The CBDT has been running a pilot project in a few major cities and has been testing the feasibility of implementing this new regime of tax assessment for the last few years.
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"As such, there is an imperative need to re-deploy the available manpower in the light of the proposed e-assessment," the CBDT order said.
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The terms of reference of the committee are to propose the new deployment of manpower in view of the implementation of e-assessment; to propose modalities and stages of re-deployment of manpower from existing stations and to recommend the requirements of additional manpower and infrastructure, if any, in the light of this new initiative.
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A blueprint prepared by the CBDT earlier this year had said the number of income tax payers opting for paperless assessment, under the pilot project, rose by 78 per cent over the last three years.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who had inaugurated the conference, had also asked I-T employees to create an environment that instills confidence among honest taxpayers and uproots corruption.
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A new link-- e-proceeding -- was recently hosted by the department on the personal login of the taxpayer on the e-filing website (https://incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in).
The new regime of e-communication will, however, be voluntary and taxpayers can take a call on whether to conduct their dealing over the e-system or through the existing procedure of manual submissions of documents by visiting the tax office.
Once taxpayers register on the web portal, they will get a confirmation as a text message and an email on their registered mobile number and email ID, indicating success.
The functionality to conduct e-proceeding will be available for all types of notices, questionnaires and letters issued under various sections of the I-T Act, the CBDT had earlier said.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)
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