- The Income Tax Department has launched an online facility that will enable payment of taxes, tracking of tax deducted at source and filing of applications for permanent account numbers (PAN).
- The facility known as ‘Aaykar Setu,’ launched by finance minister Arun Jaitley, will also help people link their 12-digit biometric identifier Aadhaar with PAN.
- Central Board of Direct Taxes will make it available as a desktop service and as an app for Android mobile phones, providing a range of informative and useful tax services.
- “This is a very important step forward by the CBDT and the principal reason being technology as a very powerful tool becomes an enabler,” Jaitley said.
- With the app, assesses can discharge most of their tax work without any external help, sitting at home, the minister said.
- The app allows the IT department to communicate directly with taxpayers.
- It can be downloaded by giving a missed call to 7306525252.
- “The app reduces the physical interface between assessing officer and assessees. Physical interface has many unintended consequences -it is time-consuming and can lead to improprieties,” Jaitley said.
via Arun Jaitley: Arun Jaitley launches ‘Aaykar Setu’ to enhance e-access of taxpayers – The Economic Times
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