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CBDT notifies emails as new communication mode

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The Central Board of Direct Taxes ( CBDT) has notified use of emails as the new mode of communication between the taxman and taxpayers, as part of the governments e- initiative to reduce human interface and complaints of harassment and corruption in conducting tax related jobs.
The amendment in the Income Tax Act was also required as the department has recently launched a pilot project of sending email queries, notices and summons to taxpayers while processing cases of scrutiny.
According to the notification 89 issued by the CBDT, the apex policy- making body of the tax department, an amendment has been made in the Section 282 of the I- T Act ( Service of notice) allowing for inclusion of taxpayers or tax paying entities email as the new mode of official communication along with the existing modes like courier, postage or departmental dispatch. Henceforth, the taxman can now send official communication to “ email address available in the income- tax return details furnished by the addressee to which the communication relates or the email address available in the last incometax return furnished by the addressee or in the case of addressee being a company, email address of the company as available on the website of Ministry of Corporate Affairs”.
“Also, any email address made available by the addressee to the income- tax authority or any person authorised by such incometax authority,” the CBDT notification issued in this regard earlier this week said.
The department, in order to reduce the taxpayers’ visit to the IT office, had launched the ‘ pilot’ project and the first set of e- communications have been decided to be mailed to 100 chosen people each in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Chennai regions.
The CBDT had recently asked the department to “ initiate the concept of using email for corresponding with taxpayers and sending through emails the questionnaire, notice etc at the time of scrutiny proceedings and getting responses from them.”
Taxman can now send official communication to “email address available in the income- tax return details furnished by the addressee.
Business Standard, New Delhi, 7th Dec. 2015 

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