The taxpayers' charter announced in the Budget will have a statutory status and it will "empower" citizens by ensuring time-bound services by the Income-Tax Department, the CBDT chief has said. CBDT-Chairman Pramod Chandra said charter will be notified very-soon and once operationalised, India will be only the "third or fourth" country to have such a tax-administration. The CBDT frames policy for the I-T Department.