Income Tax : The FAQs explain that FAST-DS, introduced through the Finance Act, 2026, offers eligible taxpayers a one-time opportunity to discl...
Income Tax : The Jaipur Tribunal held that every foreign asset or remittance cannot be treated as undisclosed wealth under the Black Money Act....
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 : 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...
Income Tax : The ITAT Jaipur held that a remittance received from a foreign employer under a retirement plan did not amount to concealment of f...
Income Tax : The ITAT held that penalty under Section 43 of the Black Money Act was not justified where foreign bank deposits arose from overse...
Income Tax : ITAT Ahmedabad held that penalty under Section 43 of the Black Money Act could not be imposed when foreign assets were subsequentl...
Income Tax : The Delhi ITAT held that notifications issued under TOLA extending limitation periods applied only to specified statutes and not t...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court ruled that Section 7 of the Prevention of Corruption Act covers attempts to obtain undue advantage through subor...
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 ...
Government may grant the Income Tax department powers to re-open tax returns of beyond six years in specific cases of black money where “foreign assets” are involved.The I-T department needs these powers to pursue the ongoing cases where funds were found to be stashed abroad and these came to light after India received a classified list of bank account holders which include those in HSBC bank Geneva and LGT Bank of Liechtenstein.
Indians are the largest depositors in banks abroad with an estimated 500 billion US dollars (nearly Rs 24.5 lakh crore) of illegal money stashed by them in tax havens, the CBI director said on Monday. India, in particular, has suffered from the flow of illegal funds to tax havens such as Mauritius, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, British […]
The Institute of Chartered Accountants of India has said a committee constituted to suggest ways to check and bring back black money stashed in banks abroad will submit its report to the Finance Ministry within a fortnight.
In the biggest ever disclosure of black money stashed abroad, a Delhi-based businessman has disclosed and surrendered Rs 73 crores to the Income Tax department and also gave holding details of lockers in Swiss banks and the US. The disclosure by the businessman identified as Satish Swahney came today after a team of Income Tax(I-T) sleuths from the newly created Directorate of Criminal Investigation (DCI) carried out simultaneous searches at his posh Sainik Farms bungalow and South Extension-I premises.
As part of efforts to fight black money, the government has decided to double the strength of the crucial foreign tax division in Finance Ministry which handles classified tax related information between India, tax haven nations and other countries.
To curb instances of black money use during the polls in five states, 204 Indian Revenue Service (Income Tax) officials have been deployed as ‘expenditure observers’ by the Election Commission. A total of 204 IRS officers, in the ranks of Additional Commissioners of Income Tax, largely drawn from various investigation wings of the department from across the country will head specially created ‘flying squads’ to check and take action against illegal movement of cash and transactions in the poll-bound states of Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur.
Move aimed at unearthing black money stashed in bank accounts abroad. The income-tax department, which is facing a number of cases of denial of secret foreign bank account holdings, has decided to re-open past tax returns of some individuals in Mumbai and Delhi, among others, to unearth black money stashed abroad.
Broadening its probe in overseas black money cases, the Finance Ministry has decided to write to tax havens and other countries to obtain past information of banking-related transactions in select cases. Top sources said that the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has obtained data of a number of accounts in foreign locations, including tax havens, and it will now write to these countries to share information about past banking transactions under the amended and rectified provisions of the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA).
The Income Tax Department has received more than 30,000 pieces of information from various countries on stashed black money under the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement, DTAA. The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), under the Finance Ministry has gathered voluminous data on suspicious transactions, the department informed a global Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD conference held in New Delhi recently.
NEW DELHI: The high-level Finance Ministry committee on curbing the menace of blackmoney has received more than 3,000 comments from general public suggesting ways to curb the generation of illicit funds. The committee, headed by Chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), has received close to 3,300 suggestions through e-mail and the panel […]
