Government urges all tax Payers to Disclose their True income and pay Appropriate taxes within the Current Financial Year; A Compliance Management Cell has been set-up to Ensure Follow-up Action and Track Return Filing and Tax Payment of the Target Segment; 70,000 Letters are being sent in 2 Batches to High Priority Cases in this [...]

In a strong message to tax evaders, the government today said that it will step up efforts to bring more people into net and also endeavour to recover tax arrears.Between January and March…we issued notices after mining the data and thanks to the advertising campaign, I have added 50 lakh more taxpayers into the tax [...]

Central Direct Tax Advisory Committee (CDTAC) is to Develop and Encourage Mutual Cooperation between the Tax-Payers and the Income Tax Department and to Remove Administrative and Procedural difficulties of a General Nature: FM The Union Finance Minister Shri P. Chidambaram said that role of the Central Direct Tax Advisory Committee (CDTAC) is to develop and [...]

The Inccome Tax Department has constituted a special cell to deal with the recovery of arrears where the assessee is not traceable or has gone bankrupt. Stating this in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha, Finance Minister P.Chidambaram said the IT department has made recoveries of over 16 thousand crore rupees in the nine [...]

Finance Minister Mr. P Chidambaram has launched an equity scheme called Rajiv Gandhi Equity Savings Scheme, or RGESS, in an attempt to lure new investors to the stock market. Chidambaram said the finance ministry would come up with the necessary changes to the scheme as suggested by the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) [...]

The Finance Minister Shri P.Chidambaram exhorted the officers of Customs and Central Excise to make every effort to achieve the budgetary target for the collection of indirect taxes for the financial year 2012-13.

The Finance Minister reiterated the commitment of the Government of India to a stable tax regime, moderate tax rates, non- adversarial tax administration and a fair mechanism for dispute resolution. He added that India has been modernizing its tax administration in a way that will minimize transaction costs and maximize taxpayer convenience, without compromising the deterrence factor.

Interest amount for the purpose of TDS be increased from Rs. 10,000/- to Rs. 25,000/- on fixed term deposits with banks, tax exemption of Rs. 20,000/- under section 80CCF for investing in Infrastructure Tax Free Bonds be reintroduced, bringing more transparency in gold and real estate transactions at par with equity transactions, to bring housing sector within the definition of infrastructure and encouraging long term funds for investment in housing sector among others.

FM Statement on Current Account Deficit (CAD); Confident to Finance the Cad Without Drawing Upon Reserves; Appeal to the People to Moderate the Demand for Gold as IT Leads to Large Imports of Gold The text of the Union Finance Minister Shri P.Chidambaram’s Statement about Current Account Deficit (CAD) is as follows: I have spoken [...]

The Union Finance Minister, Shri P. Chidambaram said that the Government is fully committed to provide best possible facilities to the tax payers for better tax compliance and revenue augmentation. He said that our focus is always to have a reasonably stable tax regime which is in the interest of both the tax payers as [...]