Safeguarding Digital and Personal Dataspace under Article 21 with Special Emphasis on Provisions of the Income Tax Act 2025
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This year, the Lok Sabha turns its focus to an issue that affects every citizen—how our digital and personal data is being used, especially under the new Income Tax Act, 2025. The Act may make taxes easier, but it also gives the government more access to our private information. And that’s where we need to pause and think. As lawmakers, it’s on us to make sure that the state’s power doesn’t come at the cost of personal freedom. We need to seriously look at when it’s okay for the government to step into someone’s private data—and when it’s not. Our job is to draw a line that protects the rights of every Indian, while still giving the government the tools it needs to catch wrongdoers and enforce the law.
Dikshit Laddha
Speaker, Lok Sabha
I, Dikshit Laddha, am honoured to serve as the Speaker of the Lok Sabha and look forward to embracing this responsibility with dedication and integrity. I am a 12th grader who is an avid MUNer, Quizzer, and entrepreneur driven by an insatiable curiosity, particularly toward Indian politics, economics, and entrepreneurship, always eager to explore new ideas and perspectives. I am looking forward to making this an enriching experience for you all.
This year, the Lok Sabha turns its focus to a landmark reform in India’s tax framework—the Income-tax Act, 2025, which seeks to replace the six-decade-old Income-tax Act, 1961 with a simpler and more modern tax framework. While the legislation aims to simplify tax provisions and reduce compliance burdens, it also raises important questions about fairness, transparency, and accountability. The Act brings forward critical questions: Will the new framework genuinely simplify taxation for individuals and businesses? How can Parliament ensure that increased digitalisation strengthens tax administration without compromising taxpayer privacy? And how can India create a system that encourages entrepreneurship and investment while effectively preventing tax evasion?
As lawmakers, it falls upon us to ensure that taxation remains not merely a means of revenue collection, but a foundation for economic growth, equity, and public trust. Your responsibility, as parliamentarians of the world’s largest democracy, is to shape a tax framework that is simpler, fairer, transparent, and future-ready.