Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) had proactively released in April, 2016 time-series data relating to direct tax collections, number of taxpayers, cost of collection, etc., data of number of PAN allotted and data relating to distribution of income and tax payable in the returns for AY 2012-13.

In continuation of the efforts to place more and more information in public domain, CBDT has further released data relating to distribution of income and tax payable in respect of returns filed for Assessment Years 2013-14 and 2014-15. With this release, detailed income-tax data for three recent assessment years have become available in public domain enabling researchers, scholars, policy makers, students and all other stakeholders to make a better analysis of the trends in incomes and tax payments.

The Reports containing the data are available at www. incometaxindia.gov.in.

Data release on income and tax distribution extends public access, enabling analysis of recent assessment years' trends. Central Board of Direct Taxes disclosed distribution of income and tax payable in returns for Assessment Years 2013-14 and 2014-15, supplementing earlier time-series data (including tax collections, taxpayer counts, cost of collection and PAN allotment data for AY 2012-13); the reports covering three recent assessment years are made available on the department's public website for stakeholder analysis of income and tax payment trends.