Syamal Datta is a B. Sc. (Hons), MBA. He is presently working as a Joint Commissioner of Income Tax. He joined Income Tax department in the year 1987 and over the period he has gained experience in diverse fields including assessment, recovery and Income Tax Appellate Tribunal. He was a trainer for 7 years in the training institute in Kolkata for officers of the Income Tax department. He was also a visiting faculty to the regional training institutes of Income tax department in other cities and National Academy of Direct Taxes, Nagpur. He has also trained officials of many other departments like Audit & Accounts, Customs & Central Excise, State Governments as well as the officers of Bangladesh and Bhutan's revenue departments. He is recognized as an ace trainer in income tax matters. In 2007, he was nominated as a member of the Business Process Re-engineering Sub-Committee by Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT). He was a member of Direct Taxes Code (DTC) Taskforce for drafting new Income Tax Rules in 2011. He also worked as Deputy Secretary (Investigation IV) in CBDT where his main functions were policy making, implementation and monitoring at the highest level of Income Tax department. He was also a member of Indian tax delegation to London in 2014. During this time, he authored one User Guide-cum-Troubleshooting Manual on online STR handling through Fin net and co-authored one book on Effective handling of cases before Settlement Commission and received appreciation letter from the Chairman, CBDT for his outstanding service. Apart from the book on real estate assessment he has also written a book on collection & recovery