Ajay Bhushan Pandey is new revenue secy

NEW DELHI:

Ajay Bhushan Pandey

, who took over as revenue secretary on Friday, said his focus would be to improve the

tax-GDP

ratio and increase compliance by making the system more taxpayer friendly.


Pandey, a 1984-batch Maharashtra cadre officer, replaced

Hasmukh Adhia

, who superannuated on Friday.

“My

priority

at this time would be to improve the tax-GDP ratio in the country by integration of technology into the entire taxation system and also making the procedures and rules and regulations simpler so that people have natural incentive to comply to the taxation regime,” the new revenue secretary told reporters.