Specified authority designation for tax data sharing enables supply of resident taxpayers' identity and address for food security implementation. The Central Board of Direct Taxes designates the Director General of Income-tax (Systems) as the specified authority to provide designated State/Union Territory authorities with resident individual income-tax payees' name, father's name and address for two consecutive financial years prior to the financial year preceding the request, subject to notification of incomplete records and execution of a Memorandum of Understanding detailing data transfer mode, confidentiality and preservation mechanisms.