"Posting orders in respect of officers to be posted to the newly created ITOUs in Indian missions at Cyprus, France, Germany, Netherlands, UAE, UK and USA have been issued and posting order in respect of officer to be posted to Japan will be issued shortly," Minister of State for Finance S S Palanimanickam said in a written reply to the Rajya Sabha today.
At present, such officers are already posted in Mauritius and Singapore.
"Tax officers at the level of First Secretary are being posted to ITOUs in Indian Missions abroad to maintain effective coordination and liaison between Indian tax authorities and the tax authorities of countries concerned," Palanimanickam said.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Budget 2012-13 had made a sizeable allocation for setting up these I-T overseas offices.