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I-T dept undergoes overhaul to implement faceless assessment scheme

3,500 posts of assessment officers diverted to other centres; officers flag transitional challenges in implementing scheme

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Investigation, international tax and tax deduction at source (TDS) have been kept out of the transition process and will continue in their old formats | Illustration: Binay Sinha

Dilasha Seth New Delhi
The income tax (I-T) department is undergoing an overhaul to implement the faceless assessment scheme launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday.

It will eliminate the physical interface between an assessee and the tax officer. At least 3,500 posts of assessment officers across the country have been diverted to the national e-assessment centre and the regional centres, in two sets of orders issued barely hours after the announcement.

However, there is lack of clarity with respect to functions like reassessment, transfer of existing cases, domestic transfer pricing cases and dispute resolution process for transfer pricing cases, among others, leaving

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