India Tax Office, Companies Test AI Tackling ‘Low-Hanging Fruit’

India’s tax department and corporate taxpayers are beginning to harness artificial intelligence to improve compliance and manage litigation, according to tax practitioners and tech companies.

AI already is helping India’s tax authorities aggregate similar appeals as it works through a backlog of tax cases, said Amitav Sinha, director general of income tax (systems), New Delhi, in the Ministry of Finance.

“One area where we’re building (AI) is litigation management,” said Sinha, during a conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India on Oct. 10. “These are very low hanging fruits [where] we would take advantage of artificial ...