The Income Tax department is working to improve the "abysmally poor" tax literacy in the country so that the number of tax paying people and entities can be increased leading to enhanced collections, CBDT Chairman J.B. Mohapatra has said.
He said the direct tax establishment – the government authority that primarily collects personal income tax and corporation tax among others – will do "everything possible" to see that the effective number of taxpayers who can add to the revenue kitty are enhanced.
"There are a few things to be done here. One is expanding the tax literacy which is abysmally poor across the country," he told PTI.
