The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has mandated ‘e-proceeding’ for all income-tax scrutiny in 2018-19. It has also specified seven situations where e-proceeding will not be mandatory this year. These include search cases, cases where returns were filed in paper mode and the assessee doesn’t have an e-filing account, and geographical areas with limited bandwith.  
  1. Amit Agarwal, Partner shares his views on aforementioned story for Hindu Business Line- Front page story.
Income-tax scrutiny all set to go electronic