Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey will hold a day-long brainstorming session on January 7 with commissioners of state and central taxes to discuss how the Goods and Service Tax (GST) system can be streamlined for faster refunds, enhanced compliance and discourage tax evaders.

Officials to meet on January 7 for streamlining GST refunds, curbing evasion

The government is looking at bringing untaxed sectors in the tax net as well as improving compliance to raise the tax-to-GDP ratio, Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey said.

Focussing on improving compliance, identifying areas which escaped tax net: Revenue Secretary AB Pandey

Pandey, a 1984-batch IAS officer of Maharashtra cadre heading UIDAI since 2010, allayed concerns about data security

Breaking Aadhaar encryption may take 'more than age of universe': UIDAI CEO

As many as 500 missing children have been traced through the Aadhaar biometric identification card over the last few months, the Unique Identification Authority of India revealed

500 missing children traced through Aadhaar: UIDAI