<span style="color: #222222;">The Centre has notified the ambitious e-assessment scheme also called the faceless assessment for income-tax payers.<br />'' <br />'' A gazette notification in this regard was published by the Finance Ministry yesterday.<br />'' <br />'' The scheme envisages the creation of a National E-Assessment Centre. The centre will serve notices to the assessees specifying the issues for selection of their case for assessment and after a response is received from them within 15 days, the centre will allocate the case to an assessing officer using an automated system.<br />'' <br />'' The notification said, a person will not be required to appear either personally or through authorized representative in connection with any proceedings under this scheme before the income-tax authority.<br />'' <br />''In case assessees or their authorized representatives want the personal hearing to make their submissions before the income-tax authority, such hearings will be conducted exclusively through video links or any other such facility.</span>