Order under section 138(1)(a) of the Income-tax Act, 1961

Information sharing under Income tax Act: specified authority to provide taxpayer status flags to state agriculture department.

Direction designates the Director General of Income tax (Systems), Delhi as the specified authority to furnish taxpayer information to the Agriculture Production Commissioner & Secretary, Government of Telangana. The State will provide Aadhaar numbers and PANs with assessment year(s); the authority will return a status flag 'Y, N, NA' for each identifier and year. Frequency and mode of exchange will be decided by the authority in consultation with the requesting Government. The authority must enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the notified State authority covering data transfer mode, confidentiality, secure preservation, weeding of data, and timelines, and must forward a copy of the MoU for record.