![IRS officer Ravi Agrawal succeeds Nitin Gupta as the new CBDT chief IRS officer Ravi Agrawal succeeds Nitin Gupta as the new CBDT chief](https://varindia.com/storage/news/2024/07/G6tdv71sb116ZbOymO1EkBWKaCxzn9lKTZz2HHH0.jpg)
A 1988-batch IRS officer, Ravi Agrawal has been appointed as the new chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the administrative body for the Income Tax Department. He takes over from Nitin Gupta, a 1986-batch Indian Revenue Service officer, whose extended tenure as the chairman ended on June 30.
The new CBDT chief is currently working as member (administration) in the board. An order issued by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) said Agarwal will head the CBDT till June, 2025.
Nitin Gupta was appointed as the CBDT chief in June, 2022. He was scheduled to retire in September last year but was given a nine-month extension till June.
Agrawal is scheduled to retire in September but his appointment order said he will continue on "reappointment on contract basis" till June 30 next year, in usual terms and conditions applicable to re-employed central government officers, in relaxation of the recruitment rules.
A senior Union finance ministry officer said that Agrawal was given an extended tenure to clock an year so as to provide continuity to the CBDT in framing direct tax policies and also for undertaking two budgets that are expected to be presented by the Union government in July and in February, 2025.
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