AI, Parliament oversight can help ease tax litigation

The sticky issue of tax disputes in India would need technological solutions like using artificial intelligence (AI) for the tax department to identify cases worth litigating, and other mitigation strategies such as reporting prominent areas of discord to Parliament, Deloitte India Tax President Gokul Chaudhri said.

Over the last decade, the government has pulled some of the right levers to improve the tax system—such as reducing tax rates and removing most exemptions—but tax disputes continue to mount.