DIRECT TAXES
| Nilekani to code public projects Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:33:03 GMT |
| The Economic Times Nilekani to code public projects NEW DELHI: The Government on Monday set up a Technical Advisory Group for Unique Projects (TAGUP) for creating an effective tax administration and financial governance system, through reliable secure and efficient IT projects. The move lays the ground for major structural reforms in the taxation structure — goods and services tax and direct taxes code. The group headed by Nandan Nilekani, chairman, the Unique Identification Authority of India, will advise on the technology architecture and ways for co-ordination between centre, states and local governments, possibility of introducing open protocols and utilisation of open source components of other e-government projects, security challenges of malicious attacks on the system. It will make recommendations on human resource including modification in government rules, procedures, appropriate placement of tasks and allocation of responsibilities within the government, contracting, commercial terms and charges including procedures for competitive bidding, pricing models and suggestions on user charges. It will also suggest a road map from start up to going concern for each of these projects, which would also focus on legal or regulatory change, if any and protection of individual’s right to privacy with focus on safeguards in the IT systems to protect legal and constitutional rights. The group will have as members Sebi chairman C B Bhave, Department of Information Technology Secretary R Chandrasekhar, former chairman Pension Fund Regulatory Authority D Swaroop, former member Central Board of Direct Taxes S S Khan, former Central Board of Excise and Customs P R V Ramanan and ICICI foundation for Inclusive Growth Nachiket Mor, a finance ministry statement said. Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee had proposed the group in his budget speech of 2010-11. The five projects that will be taken up by the TAGUP include the Tax Information Network, New Pension Scheme, National Treasury Management Agency, Expenditure Information Network and Goods and Services Tax. The TAGUP has been given a timeframe of six months to make their recommendations, the statement said. |
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