Is It Fair to Entrust Salary Confidentiality to Just One HR Person While Keeping Accountants in the Dark?

Dear seniors, my company insists so much on maintaining confidentiality regarding salary that even the accountants do not know individual salaries. As an HR person, I have handled everything from investment proof checking, tax calculations, quarterly TDS returns, and now Form 16, which is really the height. I want to know if it is right to fully entrust the responsibility of salaries to one person in HR, where even the accounting team has absolutely no clue, just to maintain confidentiality?

Thank you.

No, not only your organization. There are a few organizations where they maintain confidentiality. In one way, it is good, and in another way, it is not so. Even we maintain confidentiality. We feel that we can avoid conflicts to a certain level.