On Thursday giving an honour and to encourage honest taxpayers Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a new tax scheme, he also said the platform for “Transparent Taxation – Honoring the Honest” offers huge reforms such as faceless assessment, faceless appeal, and taxpayers charter. PM Modi also said that, the new tax reforms from now on will change the way taxes have being paid in our country.
Prime minister said, “Faceless assessment and taxpayers charter come in force from today, whereas faceless appeal service will be available from September 25,” and added that “faceless teams across India” will be checking IT returns and will redress grievances.
The Income Tax department will adopt a ‘taxpayer charter’ which outlines the rights and responsibilities of both tax officers and taxpayers.
The Prime Minister said on Thursday, “These teams will be chosen randomly and can come from any city.” He also added “Till now, all tax-related matters in a city are dealt with by the Income Tax department of that city. Now with the help of technology, scrutiny will be done by a randomly chosen IT officer anywhere in the country.”
