What leads to income tax raids, searches and seizures? The main reasons are non-compliance with summons under Section 131(1) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, (hereinafter referred to as the Act) or a notice under Section 142(1) of the Act (described in Chapter VII, infra), likely non-compliance with such summons or notice, or the possession of undisclosed property or income. It is therefore absolutely necessary for a current income tax assessee or a likely income tax assessee to comply with the summons or notice issued by the Assessing Officer, or any other such authorised person.

Recently there have been large number of news in daily newspapers on the above subject. Brief facts are that a gang of 6 persons led by so called Sh. V.D.Goyal, Investigation Officer of Income Tax Department raided the house of Dr. Mohan Pandey, Saharanpur(U.P.) on 18/04/2012. They claimed that they belong to the Office of the CIT, Lucknow and produced a fake letter issued by the Commissioner of Income Tax, Zone-2, Lucknow before the S.S.P., Saharanpur and got police force on the basis of fake letter as well as fake Identity Card.

The income tax department Monday raided the prestigious Lilavati Hospital here that is frequented by VVIPs, officials said. The raids began at around 9 a.m. in the hospital and the office of the trust which manages it, both located in the same premises in Bandra west. The hospital, worth an estimated Rs.7 billion, is at the centre of a bitter family feud.

Income tax department officials on Friday conducted searches in the office and residence of TDP MP Nama Nageswara Rao. I-T officials raided Nageswara Rao’s construction firm Madhucon in his native Khammam town besides premises at Hyderabad, sources s

Mumbai: TV channels have reported that Income Tax department have raided the premises of Bollywood divas Katrina Kaif and Priyanka Chopra. Raids began early morning at the official and residential premises of the two actresses. The reason for rai

In a move that could further push up Onion prices, traders in Nashik and adjoining areas today went on two-day strike against tax raids and disrupted supply to contracting traders from other states who are being forced to sell the vegetable at ‘below

The income tax (I-T) department stumbled upon Rs 80 crore worth concealed of income during raids on a Santacruz builder on Saturday and Sunday. The investigation wing of the department conducted raids on Rawal Builders after getting information that

Mumbai could lose at least Rs 5 crore a day for the next few days because there will be no Income Tax (I-T) raids and surveys, during which a large chunk of tax is collected. Nearly 90 per cent of the I-T department’s staff across the country has decided to not to take part in surveys and raids from Tuesday as a mark of protest.

Income tax department in the past has stumbled up on many strange things, but nothing as strange as a company exclusively providing bogus stock contract notes to evade taxes, a trail that may lead to it knocking on the doors of many auditors. The Mumbai I-T department estimates that around Rs 1,000 crore of taxes may have been evaded by producing these bogus investment losses, and it now knows the beneficiaries too, a senior department official in the know of things said.

Tax evasion in Mumbai may now become more difficult as taxpayers will have to deal with a cyber-savvy income-tax department. The IT department has recently adopted a technology to track down fraudulent electronic transactions even after they are deleted from computers. The department has a Cyber Forensic Lab in Mumbai that consists of advanced technological [...]