Rani Singh Nair, Former Chairperson CBDT

Rani Singh Nair joined the Indian Revenue Service in 1979 and has broad spectrum experience in leading initiatives in the areas of financial management and public expenditure reform, economic policies for development, tax policy formulation & legislation, Budget preparation, and conceptualization of e-governance initiatives.

The thrust of the tax policy under her stewardship as Chairman, CBDT has been to align tax policy with the overall economic policy of the govt., to impart clarity and certainty to tax laws, reduce litigation and provide tax payer services for promoting ease of doing business. The Tax Simplification Committee was established to remove hurdles in the ease of doing business and improve tax compliance .

She was also the Member (Legislation and Computerisation) CBDT, Special Secretary to Govt., Director General, Directorate of Systems, and Executive Director, PFRDA

Currently she is Government Nominee on disciplinary committee of institute of Chartered accountants of India ( ICAI) March 2022 till date and was Government Nominee on Board of Discipline, Institute of Chartered Accountants of india (ICAI) March 2018 to 2021