{"id":10195,"date":"2017-10-04T13:13:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T07:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/?p=10195"},"modified":"2017-10-04T13:13:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T07:43:51","slug":"cbdt-prescribes-format-for-consent-of-taxpayer-to-e-mail-based-electronic-assessment-proceedings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/cbdt-prescribes-format-for-consent-of-taxpayer-to-e-mail-based-electronic-assessment-proceedings\/","title":{"rendered":"CBDT Prescribes Format For Consent Of Taxpayer To E-Mail Based Electronic Assessment Proceedings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to the directive regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/cbdt-directive-reg-conduct-of-assessment-proceedings-electronically-in-time-barring-scrutiny-cases\/\">conduct of assessment proceedings electronically<\/a> in time-barring scrutiny cases, the CBDT has prescribed the format in MS Word of letter for consent of taxpayers and letter for migration of email based E-Assessment in E-Proceedings<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<!-- responsive --><br \/>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6440093791992877\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"6406297397\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><br \/>\n<script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script> <\/p>\n<div class=\"journal2\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/cbdt-prescribes-format-for-consent-of-taxpayer-to-e-mail-based-electronic-assessment-proceedings\/format-in-ms-word-of-letter-for-consent-of-taxpayers\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10196\">Click here to download the format in MS Word of letter for consent of taxpayers<\/a><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>Annexure-A: Migration of email based E-Assessment to E-Proceedings in ITBA<\/p>\n<p>Dear Taxpayer,<\/p>\n<p>Subject: Migration of ongoing scrutiny proceedings from \u2018e-mail based communication\u2019 to \u2018E-Proceeding\u2019 on Income-Tax Business Application (ITBA) platform of Income-tax Department for PAN_________, Assessment Year ________ -regd.-<\/p>\n<p>Greetings from the Income-tax Department. We thank you for your co-operation and look forward to bring a significant change in your interface with the Department.<\/p>\n<p>2.\tTowards this end, as a part of Government\u2019s initiative towards E-governance, from this financial year, Income-tax Department has decided to deepen use of digital platform for conduct of scrutiny assessment proceedings. Accordingly, the pending scrutiny proceedings (getting barred by limitation in Financial Year 2017-18), being conducted through \u2018e-mail based communication\u2019 stand migrated to the \u2018E-Proceeding\u2019 facility on ITBA platform of Income-tax Department.  Hence, you are requested to effect necessary compliance with departmental communications electronically through your \u2018E-filing\u2019 account. <\/p>\n<p>3.\tA brief note on salient features of \u2018E-Proceeding\u2019 is enclosed. Detailed information on various aspects of this new initiative for conducting assessments electronically is also available in Instruction No. 8\/2017 of CBDT dated 29th Sep 2017.<\/p>\n<p>4\tIn case you wish to opt out from this scheme at any subsequent stage, the same can be done with prior intimation to the undersigned through your \u2018E-filing\u2019 account in (www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in).<\/p>\n<p>Enclosure: as above<br \/>\n                                                                                                                   Yours faithfully<\/p>\n<p>\u2003<br \/>\nAnnexure-B: E-Proceedings in ITBA<\/p>\n<p>Dear Taxpayer,<\/p>\n<p>Subject: Conduct of ongoing \u2018Limited Scrutiny\u2019 assessment proceeding for PAN_________, Assessment Year _______ Electronically-exercise of option-regd.-<\/p>\n<p>Greetings from the Income-tax Department. We thank you for your co-operation and look forward to bring a significant change in your interface with the Department.<\/p>\n<p>2.\tTowards this end, as a part of Government\u2019s initiative towards E-governance, from this financial year, Income-tax Department has decided to suitably use digital platform for conduct of scrutiny assessment proceedings in a widespread manner. In this regard, with reference to the pending \u2018Limited Scrutiny\u2019 proceedings in your case which are getting barred by limitation on 31.12.2017, an option is now available to you to make compliance with departmental communications electronically through \u2018E-filing\u2019 facility on Income Tax Business Application of Income-tax Department. <\/p>\n<p>3.\tA brief note on salient features of \u2018E-Proceeding\u2019 is enclosed. Detailed information on various aspects of this new initiative for conducting assessments electronically is also available in Instruction No. 8\/2017 of CBDT dated 29th Sep 2017<\/p>\n<p>4.\tIn case you wish to participate in this taxpayer friendly measure, you are required to intimate the jurisdictional Assessing Officer through your \u2018E-filing\u2019 account on (www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in) latest by 15th October, 2017. <\/p>\n<p>5.\tPlease note that if you do not respond by the said date, the assessment proceedings in your case shall continue to be conducted manually. <\/p>\n<p>6.\tIn case you wish to opt out from this scheme at any subsequent stage, the same can be done with prior intimation to the undersigned through your \u2018E-filing\u2019 account.<br \/>\nEnclosure: as above<br \/>\n                                                                                                                   Yours faithfully<br \/>\nAnnexure-C:Salient features of \u2018E-Proceeding\u2019  <\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tAs part of e-governance initiative to facilitate conduct of assessment proceedings electronically, Income-tax Department has launched \u2018E-Proceeding\u2019 facility. It is a simple way of communication between the Department and assessee, through electronic means, without the necessity to visit Income-tax Office for conduct of assessment proceedings. This taxpayer friendly measure would substantially reduce the compliance burden for the assessee.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tIn assessment proceeding, \u2018E-Proceeding\u2019 would enable seamless flow of Letter(s)\/Notice(s), Questionnaire(s), Order(s) etc. from Assessing Officer to the account of concerned assessee in e-Filing website. On receipt of Departmental communication, assessee would be able to submit the response along with attachments by uploading the same, on e-Filing portal. The response submitted by the assessee would be viewed by the Assessing Officer electronically in Income Tax Business Application (ITBA) module. This would, besides saving precious time of the taxpayer, would also provide a 24X7 anytime\/anywhere convenience to submit response to the Departmental queries in course of assessment proceedings. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tAssessee would retain complete information of all e-submissions made during the course of assessment proceedings through \u2018E-Proceeding\u2019 facility for reference &#038; record purpose in his e-Filing portal account. <\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tThis initiative is environment friendly as assessment proceedings would become paperless.     <\/p>\n<p>\u2022\tAssessees who are not yet having an account on the e-Filing website of the Income-tax Department, may get themselves registered by following simple instructions in the e-Filing website (www.incometaxindiaefiling.gov.in).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to the directive regarding <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itatonline.org\/info\/cbdt-directive-reg-conduct-of-assessment-proceedings-electronically-in-time-barring-scrutiny-cases\/\">conduct of assessment proceedings electronically<\/a> in time-barring scrutiny cases, the CBDT has prescribed the format in MS Word of letter for consent of taxpayers and letter for migration of email based E-Assessment in E-Proceedings<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/cbdt-prescribes-format-for-consent-of-taxpayer-to-e-mail-based-electronic-assessment-proceedings\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-information","category-others"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}