Panel to give suggestions by Jan 31 to help incorporate those in Budget FY17 The finance ministry on Tuesday set up a 10member committee to review the Income- Tax Act to avoid litigation and improve ease of doing business, after solving past minimum alternate tax ( MAT) cases and easing transfer pricing norms. The announcement came on a day when a World Bank report showed only marginal improvement in India’s ranking in terms of ease of doing business. The panel has been asked to submit a preliminary report by January 31, so that some of its recommendations could be incorporated in Budget 2016- 17. “We have constituted a committee to simplify the provisions of the I- T Act... This committee will be conducting a study from time to time. As and when it keeps giving a bundle of suggestions with regard to simplification, we will examine those… for those found acceptable, we will try and simplify the provisions of the I- T Act,” Finance Minister Arun Jaitley told reporters here. Th