Income Tax : The scheme allows eligible taxpayers to declare undisclosed foreign income or assets with payment of prescribed dues and limited i...
Income Tax : The Finance Bill, 2026 proposes immunity from prosecution for undisclosed foreign assets below ₹20 lakh, excluding immovable pro...
Income Tax : Resident taxpayers must report foreign assets and income under Schedule FA, even if tax isn’t affected. Non-disclosure can attra...
Income Tax : Learn about the taxation of undisclosed foreign income & assets under the Black Money Act, 2015, including penalties and legal pro...
Income Tax : Explore conflicting rulings on whether bonafide mistakes in disclosing foreign assets under the Black Money Act can avoid penaltie...
Income Tax : A summary of government agencies' efforts to curb black money, including search operations, tax assessments under the Black Money ...
Corporate Law : CBDT starts a campaign for AY 2024-25 to assist taxpayers in accurately reporting foreign assets and income in ITR under Black Mon...
Income Tax : New amendments to the Black Money Act from October 2024 raise the exemption threshold for penalties on foreign assets to ₹20 lak...
Income Tax : From October 1, 2024, the Black Money Act, 2015 will be included in tax clearance certificate requirements for Indian residents le...
Income Tax : Explore Income Tax Department's advisory on reducing cash transactions. Learn about societal, individual, and national factors dri...
Corporate Law : The High Court denied bail, holding that serious allegations of loan diversion through shell entities were supported by bank recor...
Income Tax : The case involved a penalty for alleged non-disclosure of a foreign bank account. The Tribunal held that ambiguity regarding linke...
Income Tax : The issue was whether an assessment under the Black Money Act can survive once the foundational notice is held invalid. The Tribun...
Income Tax : The Tribunal held that overseas shares acquired from reinvested dividends cannot be taxed as undisclosed assets when the source is...
Income Tax : The Court upheld the deletion of penalty under the Black Money Act after finding the wife was only a joint holder and the husband ...
Income Tax : The CBDT has amended its instruction on the Black Money Act raising the exemption for prosecution to ₹20 lakh for certain foreig...
Income Tax : KSCAA urges Union Finance Minister to reform Black Money Act (BMA) penalties. Sug-gestions include amnesty, proportional fines, hi...
Income Tax : Notification designates special courts in Tamil Nadu under the Income Tax Act, 1961, and Black Money Act, 2015, for specific distr...
Corporate Law : Explore 2023 updates to Prevention of Money-laundering (Maintenance of Records) Rules. Learn how these changes impact trust, contr...
Income Tax : CBDT notifies Special Courts in Odisha vide Notification No. 127/2022-Income Tax | Dated: 26th December, 2022 under Black Money ...
Demonitisation compelled holders of cash to deposit the same in the banks. The enormity of cash deposited and identified with the owner resulted in suspected 17.42 lakh account holders from whom the response has been received online through non-invasive method.
A year on from the Paradise Papers, the world has not made sufficient progress to tackle the secrecy that facilitates the hiding of wealth in tax havens. With 10% of global GDP estimated to be hidden in tax havens, and inequality rising both in developed and developing countries, the lack of progress is worrying, according […]
section 26 of the Benami Act provides that the Adjudicating Authority shall not pass order after the expiry of one year from the end of the month in which the reference has been received by it from the Initiating Officer and whereas, on the date on which the Adjudicating Authority under the Benami Act shall discharge the functions under the Benami Act,
Whereas, sub-section (1) of section 48 of the Prohibition of Benami Property Transactions Act,1988 provides that a person preferring an appeal to the Appellate Tribunal under said Act may either appear in person
Notification in respect of assigning jurisdiction to Commissioner (Appeals) under the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015 (BM Act)- reg.
No public servant shall produce before any person or authority, any such document or record or any information or computerised data or part thereof as comes into his possession during the discharge of official duties regarding the PMGKY Scheme, other than those specified in section 199-O of Taxation Laws (Second Amendment) Act, 2016
Abstract As we all are well aware of the term ‘Tax’ which is defined as a revenue that is levied on the people by the Government based on their income and the commodities they purchase or sell. Evasion of Tax has always been considered to be an illegal action and people with greed often engage […]
The Reserve Bank has twice released its reports stating that the demonetised Notes of `500 and `1000 have been substantially deposited in the Banks. A widely stated comment has been that just because most of the currency came back into the Banks, the object of Demonetisation has not succeeded. Was the invalidation of the Non-deposited currency the only object of demonetisation? Certainly Not. The larger purpose of demonetisation was to move INDIA from a Tax Non-compliant society to a compliant society. This necessarily involved the formalisation of the Economy and a blow to the black money. How has this been achieved?
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.
Appropriate action by the Income-tax Department (ITD) and other Law Enforcement Agencies has been taken against those involved in the misuse of the Scheme of Demonetization. Such actions by the Income-tax Department included among others, conducting search and survey actions in relevant cases. During the period November 2016 to March, 2017, ITD conducted searches in […]
