Do you find yourself at the receiving end of the income-tax department’s scrutiny year after year despite being an honest taxpayer, just because you go on multiple foreign trips in a year and make high-value cash deposits? Well, you may soon get some relief, with the income-tax department looking to rationalize the scrutiny process for taxpayers picked out by the computer-assisted selection system, or CASS. In an effort to reduce harassment of taxpayers, the department will soon issue some clarifications to the scrutiny process. “We will clarify that if a taxpayer has been picked up for scrutiny for two consecutive years and no addition has been made, he will not be scrutinized again,” said a senior official of the income-tax department, on condition of anonymity. Addition refers to the practice of the tax department to add to the income of the taxpayer and, therefore, increase the tax liability in case it finds, during scrutiny, that the assessee has under-reported his or he