Direct Taxes Code (DTC) will be put on the website of the Ministry of Finance for a public discussion without partisanship or acrimony. This was stated by the Finance Minister, Shri P. Chidambaram while presenting Interim Budget 2014-15 in Parliament here today. He said that the Code can serve us for at least the next 20 years. The Finance Minister appealed to all political parties to resolve to pass the GST Laws and the Direct Taxes Code in 2014-15.

Direct Taxes Code to be opened for public discussion, with appeal for concurrent passage of GST and the Code. Direct Taxes Code will be posted on the Ministry of Finance website for public discussion as part of a non-partisan consultative process; the Finance Minister described the Code as intended to serve for about two decades and appealed to political parties to enact the Goods and Services Tax and the Direct Taxes Code in the same legislative period.