The National Academy of Direct Taxes (NADT), Nagpur, India is the premier training institution in the country for the officers and staff of the Income Tax Department. Its primary task is to provide professional training to the regular recruits to the Indian Revenue Service. The Academy also conducts in-service training courses for officers and staff of the Income Tax Department and other departments in coordination with its five Regional Training Institutes located at Bangalore, Calcutta, Hazaribag, Lucknow and Mumbai and at its twenty four Ministerial Staff Training Units spread all over the country.

The Academy is headed by a Director General of Income Tax (Training) who is of the rank of an Additional Secretary to the Government of India. He is assisted by an Additional Director General, seven Additional/Joint Directors, seven Deputy Directors and one Assistant Director (Official Language).

The Academy is a member of the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) based in Amsterdam.

Aims & objectives

• To impart in-depth training of direct tax laws, accountancy, administrative rules and procedures and basic understanding of other relevant laws to the probationers in order to help them evolve into efficient and effective tax administrators, possessing all the necessary skills and attitudes.
• To equip the probationers with necessary skills and techniques of investigation.
• To expose the probationers to modern managerial concepts so that they inculcate the values necessary to provide an able leadership and in the process achieve the organisational goals.