[Fsf-friends] IT in IT
Mahesh T Pai
paivakil at vsnl.net
Tue, 05 Nov 2002 02:15:34 +0530
Hi!! all!!!
This is one is about Information Technology in Income Tax.
The central government has sought comments on reforms in direct and
indirect tax administration. It is there at http://finmin.nic.in/.
But, IT (that is, information technology) is going to be more
pervasive in tax administration. See:-
http://finmin.nic.in/kelkar/report.pdf
and
http://finmin.nic.in/kelkar/Full_Report.pdf
Most of you can ignore the reports themselves, there is nothing about
choice of s/w in these reports, except a recommendation that use of
Information Technology should be made more pervasive - and for
business nosed amongst you, there is a recommendaiton that data entry
should be farmed out.
I believe that online presentation of tax returns and payment will
become feasible. I think that this is the ripe time to put up a strong
opinion that such procedures should be based on free s/w.
However, in light of experiences in some countries, where IT (Income
Tax) transactions were not accepted on line when the client / user
system was non-proprietary, I think we should make a short submission
on the issue. Already, the Income Tax department's web pages are
based on ASP - active server pages, as I gather from the link addresses.
Any body has more info and experiences to share with us about online
transactions?
I suggest that we put put up a short submission, - some 500 words will
do, based on feed back from the community.
Regards,
Mahesh T Pai.