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Those trying to evade the taxman may find that showing a lower income has just got tougher. The Bombay high court on Thursday, in a significant ruling, held that the income-tax department can rely on any relatable document when it comes to a block assessment. A bench headed by Justice D Y Chandrachud essentially made it easier for the tax officials to add or join other monies into the `income' bracket based on surveys or search and seizures Full Article

The Enforcement Directorate(ED) on Friday claimed to have found evidence of "large-scale" violations of Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) guidelines by real-estate major Emaar MGF in purchase of land. During its searches carried out at 13 premises of the group on Thursday, ED also claimed to have recovered about Rs nine crore in cash, two kg of gold and foreign currency worth Rs 5 lakh. Full Article

The tax authorities have been rapped by the Delhi high court for attempting to snoop on some companies, including Maytas, although they were not the suspected evaders. Terming a search and seizure operation conducted by the Income Tax department as a ‘serious invasion of the privacy and freedom of the citizen,’ the Delhi high court [...] Full Article

Warrant of authorisation issued by Addl Director without proper authority - entire search and assessment consequent to such invalid search is bad in law and annulled -ITAT. The warrant of authorization issued in the present case by the Addl. Director of Income Tax (Investigation) has therefore to be held without proper authority and the entire search as well as the assessment proceedings consequent to such invalid search has to be held bad in law and annulled. Full Article