INDIA Full I-T e-assessment from next year; CBDT forms committee The government is set to roll out an all India ‘faceless and nameless’ e-assessment procedure for Income Tax payers from 2018 with the CBDT constituting a high-level committee to prepare a quick roadmap for the implementation of this proposal. The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the policy- making body for the Income Tax Department, notified a nine- member committee--headed by a Principal Chief Commissioner rank officer -- and has set for it a deadline of February 28, 2018, for submitting its report. "The deadline of February end to the committee is an indication that the government and the CBDT want to usher in this new regime from the first half of the new year," a senior tax officer privy to the development said. ___________________________  Parliament passes companies amendment and IIM bill The Rajya Sabha on Tuesday passed the companies amendment bill to strengthen corporate go...