CBDT Launched Faceless Income Tax Appeals

The Central Board of Direct Taxation (CBDT) has launched the faceless income tax appeals today on September 25, 2020. The announcement was made by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the birth anniversary of Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay. He made his statement during the launch of Faceless Assessment and Taxpayers’ Charter under the “Transparent Taxation – Honoring the Honest” platform. Under the new mechanism, all appeals will be finalized in a faceless manner. However, it will be barring the cases of major tax evasion, black money act, serious frauds, and international tax to follow the same mechanism.