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Jun 27, 2025
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Ask justified, specific questions from taxpayers during scrutiny: CBDT to I-T officials
The CBDT has directed Income Tax Department officials across the country to ensure "due application of mind" while issuing notices for scrutiny and assessment of a taxpayer's return, emphasising that all queries should be "relevant" and "specific".
The policy-making body for the direct taxes administration has also asked all the region heads (PCCIT or principal chief commissioners of I-T) of the department to have an "effective supervision" over their assessing officers and make sure that questions sent by them to a taxpayer are "justified" and that "irrelevant" queries are completely avoided.
PTI has accessed a communication sent by the office of Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) Chairman Ravi Agrawal to the PCCITs, directing them that queries sent by FAOs (faceless assessing officers) to the taxpayers should be "relevant", "specific" and "grounded" in the specific circumstances of the case in question.
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