Piyush Goyal, who now holds the Finance portfolio, said on Friday that Union Minister Arun Jaitley was in good health and was recovering rapidly.
“I had a chance to talk to him late last night and actually even early morning today. He is in good health, recovering very rapidly,” Mr. Goyal said at the International Customs Day function organised by the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs. “And I am sure all of you will join me in wishing him the best of health and many many years of service.”
Speaking at an event organised by the Customs Department, Mr. Goyal called for increased simplification and transparency, and the use of latest technology in further smoothening the tax-filing process for the stakeholders.
Mr. Goyal stressed the simplification, transparency and use of the latest technology to further ease the tax filing process. “It is necessary to make the compliance simpler for the honest tax payers and ensure best use of the money so collected,” he said.
“After all, we are here to do a job, to ensure that the revenues of the government, which are rightfully due to be collected and which go to serve the poor of India, to create infrastructure, which go to develop security for our borders should not be lost,” Mr Goyal said. “No revenue should be lost.”
The Minister also urged the business community to do business “ethically and straight”, and that the days are gone where high rates of tax made people look for different ways in which to evade tax.
