Steps to Check Inflow of Illegal Money Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued comprehensive instructions/guidelines to banks on Know Your Customer (KYC) norms/Anti-Money Laundering (AML) standards/Combating of Financing of Terrorism (CFT)/Obligation of banks under PMLA, 2002. Also under PMLA 2002, the reporting entities, including banks, financial institutions and intermediaries of securities market, payment system [...]

Government Once again urges all Tax Payers to Disclose their true income and pay Appropriate Taxes within the Current Financial Year; Nodal Cell set up to Capture the Response and take Follow-up Action; an Online Monitoring System to Ensure Follow-up Action and Track Return Filing and Tax Payment of the Target Segment

One should not keep any unaccounted or undisclosed money, property or income popularly known as black money. If such a disclosure is made before its detection by the Income Tax Department, the chances of being trapped in a tax raid are minimized. A tax raid may also be conducted against a person in possession of undisclosed income or property not belonging to him but to someone else. It is therefore important for a person who is in possession or in custody of someone else’s jewellery or other valuables, etc. to ensure that they are duly accounted for.

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Government Adopts Five Pronged Strategy to bring back the black Money The Central Government has been vigorously pursuing the cases of black money stashed abroad and in bringing them back. For this purpose, a five pronged strategy has been adopted which is as follows:

Undisclosed Income of about Rs. 600 Crore Detected under DTAAs Since March 2009 and taxes of about Rs. 200 Crore Realized The Government receives information from various countries regarding assets including bank accounts held abroad by Indians under the respective Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements/Tax Information Exchange Agreements. Receipt of such information is an ongoing process.

On the request of the Central Government and persistent follow up in June, 2011, France has provided details of Indians having bank accounts in one of the banks of Switzerland under the provisions of Double Taxation Avoidance Convention (DTAC) between India and France. Based on this information, investigations have been undertaken by the different jurisdictional authorities under the Income Tax Act, 1961.

Information received from the Government of France has been analysed and investigations into the information have been undertaken by the different jurisdictional authorities under the Income-tax Act, 1961. Investigations in the matter are under progress including with the foreign tax authorities to obtain more information with regard to the reported account holders.

Central Board of Direct Taxes has said it does not have any information about names and addresses of Indians who have reportedly stashed money in Swiss banks.  The CBDT, a part of Department of Revenue in the Finance Ministry, said this when the matter came before the CIC where Information Commissioner Rajiv Mathur was hearing [...]

A Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) panel on black money has suggested enactment of new laws, strengthening of existing legislation and introduction of deterrent penalties for tax offences to deal with the menace.