IT dept to use identity-search software to prevent evasion

     New Delhi, Jan 27: The Income Tax department is gearing up to use identity-search technology to manage the swelling data base of taxpayers, a move that will make tax evasion difficult and bring to book habitual defaulters.

     In order to effectively manage the database of taxpayers, the Director General of Income Tax (Investigation) has invited bids from companies for developing a software, which can undertake identity search of taxpayers across the country.

     The department will use identity-search technologies to map the profile of tax payer, with all expenditure undertaken by them during the year. The exercise would also include matching of names, addresses, dates of birth and Permanent Account Numbers (PAN).

     The software should be able to manage "about four million records in pan, around 1 million records from online tax accounting system and AST (assessment system) and about 4 million records of external data for each installation, the department said while inviting bids from companies.

     The total data volume of taxpayers is expected to be between 10 and 20 million records in each installation, depending on the location, it said. The challenge the department faces is to leverage this data successfully to build an integrated view of a taxpayer`s data for carrying out its various statutory activities, it added.

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