Last month, the government launched the concept of Faceless Assessment for honest taxpayers, which no doubt will certainly bring down the corruption and unnecessary proceedings that earlier caused undue hardship with the honest taxpayers. In addition to bringing down corruption and unnecessary proceedings, it will provide additional benefits to the taxpayers which are as under:
1. No need to visit tax office
Taxpayers neither need to go to the tax office either himself nor through an Authorised Representative, they can represent their case to the tax officer themselves by submitting their submission online. Thereby, they don’t need to waste their time waiting for their turn of hearing in the income tax office.
2. Specialised team of officers
The assessment will be done by the team rather than a single officer even that team will be supported by the technical experts, verification experts, etc, it appears that now assessment will be completed on merit.
3. Transparent Environment
Now taxpayers will have the record of each hearing including the noting of the assessment team which earlier is not available with the taxpayers. Availability of such noting will certainly support the taxpayers in drafting the application for appellate proceedings in case it requires.
However, there are also few apprehensions which income tax department needs to be re-consider keeping in mind the interest of the honest taxpayers.
Source: Financial Express
