This facility, initially, will be available at select ATMs in the major centres.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) reached Mumbai on Saturday, a day after the agency transferred investigation in six cases, including the controversial cruise drugs case in which Shah Rukh Khan's son Aryan Khan was arrested, to it.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee earlier this month approved the proposal for deputing the officials at the Paris-headquartered body as advisors.
The searches, they said, are related to the department's probe in the biggest haul of cash and gold in Chennai post demonetisation.
The taxman wants the mascot, which will be used in all communications and publicity purposes of the department, to be 'captivating' and 'inspiring', particularly to the young and future taxpayers.
Stepping up its attack on the Narcotics Control Bureau, the Nationalist Congress Party on Friday alleged that the anti-drug agency let off two persons after a raid on a cruise ship off Mumbai coast recently, with one of them being the brother-in-law of a 'high-profile' BJP leader.
Computerisation of the Income-Tax Department has played a key role in raising tax compliance and higher tax collections over the past few years.
Some radio taxi operators are avoiding service tax payments, forcing the revenue department to take necessary steps, including coercive measures, to recover the dues, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.