The Finance Minister also announced that in order to upgrade the skills of the IRS officers, an advance mid-career training programme for them would be started during the current year. This will equip officers to face challenges dealing with complex international transactions and fight menace of tax avoidance schemes using tax havens and low tax jurisdiction. The Finance Minister also asked CBDT to ensure deployment of human resources in consonance with requirement of the tax laws. In this regard, he specifically asked for timely completion of exercise of cadre restructuring and hold regular departmental promotional committee (DPC) as per the DoPT calendar. The Finance Minister advocated the need to focus on preventive vigilance and adopt a strategy for zero tolerance for corruption. He asked CBDT to set up a Committee to examine the vigilance practices and procedures in few select countries. The experience of other countries can be used to streamline and strengthen the vigilance administration in Income Tax department. In order to provide the services to the taxpayers of desired quality, the Finance Minister stressed that the same become technology driven. For the current year, the Finance Minister asked senior officers of the income tax department to exceed the target of direct tax collection at Rs. 4,30,000 crore in the Budget estimates. He asked the department to adopt special strategy to monitor TDS compliance at the District level, State level and at Central level.

In the end, the Finance Minister expressed his concerns over the rising litigation with the taxpayers and the quantum of revenue locked in appeals. He stated that taxpayers should be encouraged to Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP) which has emerged as a preferred alternate dispute resolution mechanism. He asked CBDT to come out with a comprehensive proposal to address the issue of unwanted litigation with taxpayers and also to realise locked up revenue in appeals.