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Torture under 'transparent taxation'

Everyone had believed that faceless assessments would end corruption

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The Finance Bill of 2019, in addition to amending the tax laws, also amends several other laws unrelated to taxation

Debashis Basu
In August 2020, the prime minister announced three structural tax reforms under “transparent taxation” — faceless assessment, faceless appeal, and a taxpayers’ charter. On the ground, though, maddeningly complicated income-tax rules and laws, a broken online filing system, and malfunctioning faceless tax assessments have turned this slogan into a joke. It all starts with the torture of having to file everything online through a portal that is broken. According to chartered accountants (CAs), the website has issues from logging in to filing forms and even wrong refunds. A return filed and verified can appear as “unverified” later. In some cases,
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