The Tamil Nadu government has requested that the Union Finance Ministry assign officers from the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) to the state’s Service and Analysis Wing, citing that critical job vacancies for the IT department are significantly impairing their operations.
Earlier this month, the Secretary for Commercial Taxes and Registration, Shilpa Prabhakar Satish, formally requested the urgent deputation of one additional commissioner, one joint commissioner, two deputy commissioners, and four assistant commissioners from the CBIC chairman.
The Service and Analysis Wing, formerly called the Service Tax Cell, has a significant role in reinforcing tax administration through data analysis, policy formulation support, and performance monitoring.
It supports enhancing tax compliance, identifying revenue leakage, and augmenting tax collection.”Lack of adequate personnel has resulted in delays in critical analytical work and constrained the department’s capacity to make timely and informed decisions,” the secretary wrote in the letter.
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In October 2017, the wing was formed two of the three deputy commissioner posts were vacant from that day. Since November 2021, one assistant commissioner post has been vacant, and the joint commissioner post has remained vacant since October 2023, as per the letter. CBIC has not replied to a senior government official yet.
