PM announces faceless assessment, taxpayers’ charter  

Context: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a “Transparent Taxation -- Honouring the Honest” platform that provides faceless assessment and faceless appeal and a taxpayers’ charter.

Details:

• The assessment system seeks to eliminate corrupt practices by doing away with the territorial jurisdiction of income-tax offices.
• With the help of technology, the cases of scrutiny will now be allocated randomly to any official in any part of the country.
• 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.
• From now on, 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 platform would instill a sense of fairness and fearlessness in the taxpayers.

Reference:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/pm-says-faceless-assessment-faceless-appeal-and-taxpayer-charter-part-of-new-platform/article32342005.ece