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In the light of demonetisation, Income Tax Department (ITD) initiated Operation Clean Money (OCM) or Swachh Dhan Abhiyan on 31st January 2017 with the objective, to create a tax compliant society through a fair, transparent and non-intrusive tax administration.
Aadhar Legislation will stand the test of constitutionality; Demonetisation helped in reducing the volume of cash transactions and increase in digital payments, widening of the tax base and more formalization of the economy among others; No reverse in financial inclusion process possible for policy makers.
The Government launched a concerted drive against black money with Demonetization being an important step in that direction. Among the main objectives of Demonetization was the flushing out of black money and also conversion of the non-formal economy into a formal economy to expand the tax base. The impact of Demonetization on black money, widening of tax base and Direct Tax Collections is summed up here under:
The Government of India decided to cancel the Legal Tender Status of Rs. 1000 and Rs. 500 denomination currency notes on 8th November 2016 with several objectives: (i) flushing out black money, (ii) eliminate Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN), (iii) to strike at the root of financing of terrorism and left wing extremism, (iv) to convert non-formal economy into a formal economy to expand tax base and employment and (v) to give a big boost to digitalization of payments to make India a less cash economy.
Taking into consideration, the value of SBNs now reported to have been counted, approximately 98.96% of SBNs in value terms have come back to the RBI after demonetization. In other words, only an estimated Rs. 16000 crore worth of SBNs have not come back to the RBI so far.
Kailash Assudani Vs CIT (Madhya Pradesh High Court) High Court held that It is the Adjudicating Authority who is to decide the question of Benami nature of the property. The proceedings under Section 24 of the Act contemplates the issuance of show cause notice as to why the property specified in the notice should not […]
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) with regard to implementation of of Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988 (as amended by Benami Transactions (Probibition) Amendment Act, 2016], following setting up of dedicated Benami Prohibition Units (BPUs) under each PDIT(Inv)
Press Information Bureau Government of India Ministry of Finance 07-August-2017 17:13 IST 25% growth noin number of Income Tax Returns filed in current fiscal Advance Tax (Personal Income Tax) collections up by 41% As a result of demonetization and Operation Clean Money, there is a substantial increase in the number of Income Tax Returns (ITRs) […]
Kailash Assudani Vs CIT (Madhya Pradesh High court) A plain reading of Sub-section (3) of Section 26 of Prohibition of Benami Property Transaction Act, 1988 makes it clear that the adjudicating authority is obliged to examine the stand of alleged Benamindar in reply to the show cause notice. He is further obliged to make further […]
i. About 18 lakh persons whose cash transactions did not appear in line with their tax profile were identified and approached through email/sms. ii. More than 9.27 lakh responses were received giving information on 13.33 lakh accounts involving cash deposits of around Rs.2.89 lakh crore. Out of this record number of 5.27 lakh responses were received in the first 12 days of the operation.
