Finance : Recent reforms in gold, land, and PAN tracking hint at a structured buildup toward another demonetisation. The key takeaway is a t...
Income Tax : Discover the implications of a significant Delhi ITAT ruling on cash sales pre-demonetization. Learn how it affects taxation and f...
Income Tax : Explore the impact of demonetization on cash deposits in India and the key legal insights from Section 69A vs. Section 44AD cases....
Fema / RBI : Public can continue to use ₹2000 banknotes for their transactions and also receive them in payment. However, they are encouraged...
Finance : Understand the implications of depositing the Rs. 2000 note in banks amid its withdrawal from circulation. Explore challenges, inc...
CA, CS, CMA : SFIO, Ministry of Corporate Affairs, arrests CA Nalin Prabhat Panchal in Hyderabad for failure to honor summons related to Nityank...
Income Tax : No study on effect of withdrawal of legal tender character of the Specified Bank Notes (SBNs) on Indian economy has been published...
Income Tax : Demonetisation, inter alia, led to detection of black money, increase in tax collection and widening of tax base: Union MoS for Fi...
Fema / RBI : Value of counterfeit notes detected in banking system reduced from ₹43.47 crores in 2016-17 to ₹8.26 crores in 2021-22 since d...
Income Tax : An analysis of the search cases, conducted by Income Tax Department (ITD), involving cash seizures of more than Rs 5 crores in the...
Income Tax : The case involved cash deposits during demonetization treated as unexplained income. The tribunal accepted the explanation of fore...
Income Tax : The Tribunal deleted the addition after finding that cash deposits were supported by disclosed sale consideration and documentary ...
Income Tax : The issue was whether demonetization cash deposits were unexplained. The Tribunal held that deposits from recorded business sales ...
Income Tax : The judgment reiterates that additions under Section 68 cannot be based on presumptions or suspicion without supporting evidence. ...
Income Tax : The issue involved SBN deposits treated as unexplained despite being part of recorded sales. The Tribunal held that taxing the sam...
Fema / RBI : RBI reported that 98.44% of ₹2000 banknotes in circulation have been returned since the withdrawal announcement in May 2023. How...
Fema / RBI : The RBI announced the withdrawal of ₹2000 notes in May 2023. As of Sept 30, 2025, 98.35% of notes are returned. Notes remain leg...
Fema / RBI : RBI provides an update on the withdrawal status of ₹2000 banknotes, with 98% of notes returned by October 31, 2024....
Fema / RBI : RBI has extended deadline for withdrawal of ₹2000 banknotes to October 7, 2023. Learn about new guidelines and arrangements....
Fema / RBI : Reserve Bank of India's decision to withdraw ₹2000 banknotes has been highly effective, with 93% of these notes already returned...
It is brought to the notice of tax payers that any instance coming to the notice of Income-tax Department which reflects manipulation in the amount of income, cash-in-hand, profits etc. and fudging of accounts may necessitate scrutiny of such cases so as to ascertain the correct income of the year and may also attract penalty/prosecution in appropriate cases as per provision of law.
Presently, cleaning the system from black money and corruption is very high on my agenda. This comes closely after digitisation and introduction of GST.
FM Said that Demonetisation is actually a step in the direction of less cash economy. It’s our strategy that from high cash dominated economy we should become a less cash economy where the amount of paper currency comes down. Cash will still exist and there would be a greater digitisation.
Assessee can deposit his unaccounted cash into bank and declared it as a current year’s income in next year’s tax return i.e. next Assessment year 2017-18.
On receipt of Payment scroll, PAO, Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance will debit the expenditure head of Account for MDR charges maintained centrally in Demand for Grant of Department of Economic Affairs by per contra credit to the Major Head 8675-Deposits with Reserve Bank-101- Central -Civil.
There has been a media report about one of the RBI staff at Bengaluru as well. Let me clarify that it was a junior functionary of the Reserve Bank of India
Banks are advised to preserve CCTV recordings of operations at bank branches and currency chests for period from November 08 to December 30, 2016
After Demonetisation, the sole emphasis of the Government is on Cashless Economy or Digital payments. The bold step of demonetisation taken by the PM would become a nullity if the whole country does not adopt cashless transactions. The government wants every citizen to open bank account and use the option of debit cards, credit cards […]
Counterfeit notes detected in the SBNs received in exchange and deposits should be kept branch-wise, in a secured and segregated manner, so that further analysis, as necessary, can be conducted at a later stage.
The overwhelming finance sector reforms have begun transforming the system as New Deal. Currency crunch is still a problem, digital reach and efficiency not sufficient, yet the popularity of the measure, peoples patience to make it succeed and Prime Minister’s passionate appeals have created the atmospheric for monetary reform.
