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April 2011

I-T to make staff’s work less taxing

By Raman Jokhakar
Tarunkumar G. Singhal
Chartered Accountants
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In a bid to reduce the burden on officials, the Income-tax Department is planning to outsource record management to private entities.

The number of income taxpayers in the country is about 35 million. It is expected to reach around 80 million by 2015. Considering that a substantial number of taxpayers file returns manually, managing records has become a major task for the Department.

The Department says it requires about 12,000 officials just for scrutiny cases. At present, around 4,000 officials are handling 7,00,000 scrutiny cases a year.

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