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President Droupadi Murmu connected Tuesday (November 25, 2025) said that the taxation postulation should beryllium a creaseless process with minimum discomfort to the taxpayer.
Addressing the serviceman trainees of Indian Revenue Service (Customs and Indirect Taxes), astatine the Rashtrapati Bhavan, President Murmu asked them to make systems that are transparent, accountable, and technology-driven.
"This is the gross that funds infrastructure, education, health, and societal welfare. You are, therefore, progressive participants successful India’s nation-building process. But, the taxation postulation should beryllium a creaseless process with minimum discomfort to the taxpayer," President Murmu said.
“Please retrieve what Chanakya successful the Arthashastra said astir taxation postulation — ‘a Government should cod taxes similar a honeybee, which collects conscionable the close magnitude of chromatic from the angiosperm truthful that some tin survive’," President Murmu said portion addressing them.
President Murmu said that the caller Goods and Services Tax (GST) reforms introduced connected September 2025 correspond a landmark measurement successful reshaping India’s taxation system.
"These reforms are designed to make an enabling situation for entrepreneurship, occupation creation, and affordable living. These reforms fortify India’s imaginativeness of inclusive growth, sustainability, and empowerment of the adjacent generation," President Murmu said.
President Murmu asked the officers to guarantee that taxation serves arsenic a span of spot and fairness, and not arsenic a barrier.
"As gross work officer, you volition execute aggregate roles — arsenic administrators, investigators, facilitators of trade, and enforcers of law. You are the sentinels of India’s economical frontiers, protecting the state against smuggling, fiscal fraud, and illicit trade, portion simultaneously facilitating morganatic commerce and planetary commercialized partnerships," President Murmu said.
President Murmu said that their relation demands a delicate equilibrium betwixt enforcement and facilitation; betwixt upholding the instrumentality and enabling economical growth.
President Murmu asked them to make systems that are transparent, accountable, and technology-driven.
"Integrity and fairness indispensable stay the cornerstone of your nonrecreational conduct. The young officers are expected to beryllium innovative, analytical, and technologically adept. I impulse you to clasp data-driven decision-making, automation, and integer governance to marque taxation medication much businesslike and citizen-friendly," President Murmu said.
President Murmu besides asked them to perpetually upgrade their cognition and accommodate to accelerated changes successful planetary trade, technology, and economics.
"You are an important portion of our ongoing travel toward making India, a developed federation by 2047. You person an integral relation to play successful realizing the imaginativeness of 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat' by providing a stable, fair, and facilitative taxation ecosystem that encourages entrepreneurship, compliance, and investment," President Murmu added.
