E-Filing of Appeals - CBDT Initiative

By Vijay Kumar

CBDT plans to make e-filing of appeals before the CIT(Appeals) mandatory. (As already reported yesterday in our Mixed Buzz).

CBDT has only issued a Press Release on this subject. The Notification/Circular/Instruction may be in the pipeline. We hope they have the systems ready to file the appeal online along with all the relevant documents.

This is a good initiative that could save tons of paper. Further it would make filing appeals a simpler process.

The CBEC which claims to be ready to implement GST should also think of following the CBDT.

Now in a Revenue Building, it is very difficult to find the Appellate Commissioner's office and then one should go through different floors and layers before one could file an appeal.

There is also a lot of human interface which creates avoidable problems.

Let us hope the New Year will see a new appeals environment.