Senior Indian Revenue Service Officer Sushil Chandra appointed as the next chairperson of the Central Board of Direct Taxes(CBDT).
The present chairman Rani Singh Nair will retire the end of this month. She was appointed as the chairperson last August.
The Chairperson, CBDT is the senior-most IRS civil servant in the Government of India. The Chairperson of Central Board of Direct Taxes is the ex officio Special Secretary to the Government of India
Sushil Chandra, a 1980 batch officer of Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax cadre), is currently Member (Investigation) of the CBDT.