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Faceless Assessment Scheme Mired In Litigation
Two constitutional challenges, thousands of writ petitions and angry high courts - one year of faceless assessments.
09 Nov 2021, 03:11 PM IST i

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Two constitutional challenges, thousands of writ petitions and angry high courts. The tax department’s Faceless Assessment Scheme has been mired in litigation in the first year of its implementation.Introduced in August last year, the scheme promised transparency and efficiency in tax assessments. It takes away the element of interaction between an assessing officer and taxpayer, presumably to weed out any corruption. Cases are alloc...

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