CBDT Amends Rule To Enable Issue Of Notice, Summons, Orders Etc To Taxpayers By Email

Pursuant to the CBDT’s directives regarding ‘Paperless Assessment Proceedings‘, ‘E-Sahyog Project To Avoid Physical Presence Of Taxpayers During Assessment‘ and ‘Redressal of grievances received from Taxpayers by email at Aayakar Sampark Kendra‘, the CBDT has issued a Notification dated 02.12.2015
by which it has amended the Income-tax Rules, 1962 to provide that for purposes of section 282(1) of the Act, service of notice, summons, requisition, order and other communication may be done by email