CHENNAI:
Tamil Nadu Information Technology Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan on Tuesday called on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the Parliament house to thank her for enabling Tamil Nadu to become the first state to get Application Programming Interface (API) connectivity to Income Tax data.
"Following the GST Council model of data sharing across states, this progressive step will increase the efficiency and accuracy of government schemes and subsidies," said Thiagarajan, the former Tamil Nadu finance minister.
During his tenure as Finance minister, Thiagarajan has urged the union Finance Minister for a data sharing protocol that allows the States to access data of Income Tax, Aadhaar, Covid-19 among others, which would supplement efforts of states towards a data-driven administration.
The minister also thanked Sitharaman for the support throughout his time as Finance Minister and Goods Service Tax (GST) Council member.
"I also used the opportunity of being in Delhi (for a University Commencement Lecture and IT-related meetings) to call on and thank the Union Finance Secretary T V Somanathan and the CBDT Chairman Nitin Gupta for their unstinting support during my term in my previous role," the minister tweeted.
Tamil Nadu Information Technology Minister Palanivel Thiagarajan on Tuesday called on Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman at the Parliament house to thank her for enabling Tamil Nadu to become the first state to get Application Programming Interface (API) connectivity to Income Tax data.
"Following the GST Council model of data sharing across states, this progressive step will increase the efficiency and accuracy of government schemes and subsidies," said Thiagarajan, the former Tamil Nadu finance minister.
During his tenure as Finance minister, Thiagarajan has urged the union Finance Minister for a data sharing protocol that allows the States to access data of Income Tax, Aadhaar, Covid-19 among others, which would supplement efforts of states towards a data-driven administration.
The minister also thanked Sitharaman for the support throughout his time as Finance Minister and Goods Service Tax (GST) Council member.
"I also used the opportunity of being in Delhi (for a University Commencement Lecture and IT-related meetings) to call on and thank the Union Finance Secretary T V Somanathan and the CBDT Chairman Nitin Gupta for their unstinting support during my term in my previous role," the minister tweeted.
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