Login With Google
PM announces taxpayers’ charter
Why is it in news?
- Prime Minister Modi launched a “Transparent Taxation — Honouring the Honest” platform that provides faceless assessment, faceless appeal and a taxpayers’ charter.
Details:
- The faceless assessment and taxpayers’ charter came into force from 13 August 2020.
- The faceless appeal system will be available from September 25, the birth anniversary of Deendayal Upadhyaya.
Faceless Assessment System:
- The assessment system seeks to eliminate corrupt practices by doing away with the territorial jurisdiction of income-tax offices.
- The cases of scrutiny will now be allocated randomly to any official in any part of the country, with the help of technology.
- The document identification numbers will be issued from the Central database.
- Review of orders will also be done by another team at some other place, chosen randomly using data analytics and artificial intelligence.
Authority:
- The officials in the Directorate General of Income Tax (Investigation) and the Principal Commissioner of I-T/Chief Commissioner of I-T (TDS) will be the only competent authorities for approving survey actions to gather information for scrutiny and assessment.
- The department would escape unnecessary litigation and the officials would get reprieve from the energy otherwise spent on transfers and postings.
Significance:
- The platform would instil a sense of fairness and fearlessness in the taxpayers.
- The effort was to make the tax system seamless, painless and faceless.
- The new facilities were in consonance with government’s motto of ‘minimum government, maximum governance.