Rumaiza Fathima, IRS

Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax
|Ministry of Finance
| Economics | Books | Quizzing | 🏊‍♀️

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

The best part about being the MC for a #RashtrapathiBhavan event is that you get to say cool things like "Ladies and Gentlemen, The President" and everyone rises as the #President arrives to the Hall.

An experience of a lifetime🙏
#grateful
#upsc #IRS #President #DroupadiMurmu

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Independence Day Greetings to all 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[Soumya Swaminathan @doctorsoumya]

At the @IncomeTaxIndia day celebrations in Chennai 2025, i spoke about the importance of staying healthy as we age & how increasing tax to GDP ratios will allow usto invest more in disease prevention & health promotion. @MoHFW_INDIA @nsitharaman @FinMinIndia

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

Absolute privilege meeting and listening to @doctorsoumya, former Chief Scientist, WHO– our Guest of Honor for IT Day celebrations, 2025

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

The session focused on clarifying filing procedures and promoting trust-based engagement. With a special focus on Updated Return (ITR-U) filing under section 139(8A) promoting voluntary compliance

#IncomeTax #NUDGE #TaxOutreach #TamilNadu #VoluntaryCompliance

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The Income Tax Department conducted a hybrid outreach session for 1000+ employees of Cognizant, Chennai, as part of the NUDGE initiative

NUDGE (Non-Intrusive Usage of Data to Guide and Enable Taxpayers) uses behavioral insights and data to encourage voluntary tax compliance

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

Recently, I conducted a session on careers in the Civil Services for an auditorium of High Schoolers.

Energized and equally stumped by some of their questions on the future of Governance!
#upsc #civilservice

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

Fond memories from the NALSAR campus at Hyderabad.
Congrats to my fellow batchmates who received their degrees too! @riteshsingh43

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

Officially a post graduate!
Thanks to @NALSAR_Official and @NADT_Official I have a new found academic interest which *actually* and shockingly helps at the job on a daily basis!

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

In govt, getting appreciation is rare. It's even rarer to have superiors who really makes you feel seen esp the difficulties u face.
1 yr at a very public facing role and had my fair share of ups and downs, but happy to have left that office slightly better than I found it :)

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

Ever since moving to Chennai (again) as an adult with some disposable income, an Ona-sadhya from Ente Keralam at Poes Gardens has become an annual affair.
Happy Onam folks!

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

2. I also had the privilege of being the Master of Ceremony for Income-tax Day celebrations in Chennai in the presence of the Hon'ble Governor of Tamil Nadu at the (one and only!) Music Academy Chennai.

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

As a student who has been into extra curriculars perhaps even more than the actual curriculars, it's pretty satisfying when work offers you to do the same every now and then!
1. Organized and hosted the first ever Annual IRS quiz for school kids in Chennai.

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We had a cool NYT games inspired #connections round too! Try it out!
https://t.co/E4pDwAWYJw 

https://t.co/33pcFXd5Aw 

https://t.co/I4kazrAeT1 

https://t.co/0rr4OQpXyi

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

@ganesh_sanjana Congrats!

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

@smita_sing Deeply saddened by the news Ma'am. May the Almighty give his soul peace. 😓

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

Had an excellent time attending a weeklong mind-expanding course by the International Monetary Fund @IMFNews @sarttac on Revenue Administration Gap Analysis. Their tools and methodology was simply top notch and made me a little less scared of econometric models 😅 #win

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https://t.co/iX50sienX6 by the inimitable @riachops

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A thread of excellent long(ish)reads I stumbled across in X today.
https://t.co/QWDj4lx9cK

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https://t.co/EFsjicM45H

[Rumaiza Fathima, IRS @rumaizaIRS]

The highest duty of all.
#PollingDay