The Finance Minister has proposed to continue the series of administrative measures for improving the overall efficiency of the tax regime. Presenting the Union Budget in the Lok Sabha today, Shri P.Chidambaram said that he proposed to expand the slew of administrative measures as below:-

• Expansion in the scope of annual information returns.

• Extension of the e-payment facility through more banks.

• Extension of the refund banker system to refunds of more than Rs.50,000/-.

• Making e-filing mandatory for more categories of assessees.

  Shri P.Chidambaram said that the Income Tax Department is rapidly moving towards technology based processing as is evident from the Central Processing Cell set-up at Bengaluru and the Central Processing   Cell-TDS inaugurated a few days ago at Vaishali, Ghaziabad. The fifth large Tax payer unit will be opened at Kolkata shortly.

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Mandatory e-filing expansion and enhanced administrative measures streamline taxpayer compliance and broaden electronic payment and refund processes. The proposals expand electronic tax administration by widening the scope of annual information returns, mandating e-filing for more categories of assessees, extending e-payment facilities through additional banks, and broadening the refund banker system to cover higher-value refunds, while reinforcing technology-based processing through Central Processing Cell installations and new large taxpayer units.