Faceless income tax assessment starts today: Here is all you need to know

Faceless assessment enables an assessing officer, who is physically located in a particular jurisdiction, to assess a Bill of Entry pertaining to imports made at a different Customs station

Months after it was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the income-tax appeals are all set to go faceless from Friday. 

The income tax department has already rolled out pan-India faceless assessment facilities for all taxpayers from August 13. The Centre hopes that the faceless system will ease compliance and widen the tax base

India introduced a faceless assessment of tax on a pilot basis in October 2019, taking up about 58,000 cases. Of these cases, orders were passed in 11,000 cases and about 4,000-5,000 orders will be issued soon.

Faceless assessments will require a structural change for tax authorities