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 ...
In the first major operation in the current financial year, income tax (I-T) department officials cracked on four real estate groups in the city on Wednesday. Suspecting tax evasion and parking of black money, the IT officials began search and survey on 60 premises, including offices, houses and project sites of the groups on Wednesday afternoon.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) may soon frame a stringent set of rules for funds investing in art works, antiques, coins and stamps, with an aim to check black money flow into these products and safeguard the interest of genuine investors. Sebi considers investment funds focussed on art works, antiques, coins and […]
Many NGOs and whistleblowers have complained to authorities that Indian money worth several thousands crore was illegally routed to many tax havens and urged government to take strict measures to put a bar on it. Finance Ministry admits it has “no authentic figures” about the quantum of black money deposited in Swiss banks. It is stated that efforts have been made from time to time to seek details of the bank accounts held by Indians in Swiss Confederation under the existing Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) between India and Switzerland .
The Centre on Friday declined before the Supreme Court to make public names of the people who have stashed black money in foreign banks. It informed that it is not possible to disclose information received from foreign governments under the Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAT). The Centre, however, agreed to reveal the names of six persons who had deposited money with the Liechtenstein Bank in Germany and who are being prosecuted by the government authorities.
The government has set the ball rolling for estimating black money by signing agreements with three leading think-tanks NCAER, NIFM and NIPFP to conduct study on unaccounted income generated inside and outside the country. They have been given 18 months to complete the study and also suggest administrative and legal measures to prevent generation of black money, according to sources.
A reference is invited to your letter, dated 19 January, 2011 addressed to Prime Minister of India regarding disclosure of names of Indians having illegal accounts in Liechtenstein, which were obtained from German Government. In your letter you have stated that a plea has been taken by the Government before the Supreme Court in the Public Interest Litigation that the names of Indians having bank accounts in LGT bank of Lichtenstein received from Germany cannot be made public in view of the confidentiality provision of the DTAA between India and Germany. You have also mentioned that there is no bilateral agreement between India and Germany which contain confidentiality provision and that Law Officers of Government have misled the Supreme Court. In view of the above, a plea was made to make the names public and prosecute t
In order to check flow of black money into real estate sector, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said stamp duty needs to be reduced, a step that realty players welcomed, stating it will bring in more transparency.
The Supreme Court Friday asked the government to consider the option of setting up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the black money stashed away by Indian citizens in foreign banks. An apex court bench of Justice B Sudershan Reddy and Justice SS Nijjar asked Solicitor General Gopal Subramaniun to get back with the government’s response by March 28.
Blaming use of black money in real estate to archaic laws, India’s largest realty firm DLF today said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s emphasis on reduction of stamp duty will help in cleansing the sector. “Real estate industry is the least reformed. Wherever any reforms have not taken place, parallel economy exists… This industry’s laws, regulations everything is archaic. No reform has taken place since Independence,” DLF Chairman K P Singh said at the India Today Conclave here.
Income of Pune-based stud farm owner Hasan Ali Khan multiplied by over 100 times in six years from Rs 529 crore to Rs 54,268 crore in 2006-07, reveals CAG report tabled in Parliament today. Khan, who is presently in custody of the Enforcement Directorate, has not filed returns for several years despite earning crores, Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said.
