Limits of intrusion

The I-T Bill must incorporate clear-cut safeguards against privacy breach

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The Select Committee of the Lok Sabha has done a thorough job of reviewing the Income Tax Bill, 2025, making good use of the inputs from various stakeholders and experts. The report reveals a keen eye has been kept on each provision and phrase of the Bill, which was meticulously drafted in the first place. The committee has identified certain inadvertent omissions, and residual ambiguities in the Bill that would have produced unintended consequences and led to avoidable disputes, and made suggestions to set them right.