{"id":1035402,"date":"2026-09-15T08:46:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1035402"},"modified":"2026-09-15T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T03:24:57","slug":"tax-department-turns-to-ai-for-sharper-scrutiny-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/15\/tax-department-turns-to-ai-for-sharper-scrutiny-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Tax department turns to AI for sharper scrutiny, compliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The tax department is increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics and information from multiple government databases to identify anomalies, detect potential tax risks and sharpen scrutiny of taxpayers. <\/p>\n<p>According to tax officials and chartered accountants TNIE spoke to, the approach is moving beyond checking individual tax returns to analysing patterns across Income Tax Returns, GST returns, e-invoices, e-way bills, registrations and historical taxpayer behaviour. The objective is to make scrutiny more targeted and improve voluntary compliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tax department is increasingly using artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics and information from multiple government databases to identify anomalies, detect potential tax risks and sharpen scrutiny of taxpayers. According to tax officials and chartered accountants TNIE spoke to, the approach is moving beyond checking individual tax returns to analysing patterns across Income Tax Returns, GST returns, e-invoices, e-way bills, registrations and historical taxpayer behaviour. The objective is to make scrutiny more targeted and improve voluntary compliance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1035402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1035402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1035423,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1035402\/revisions\/1035423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1035402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1035402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1035402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}