Income Tax : Understand the Income Tax Informants Reward Scheme 2018. Learn about eligibility, rewards, and the scope of the scheme designed to...
Income Tax : The love towards money can lead to problems like demonetarization of currency etc which can further lead to more tax evaders in ou...
Income Tax : To achieve the dream of $5 Trillion Economy by 2024 , Finance Minister present its 1st budget of this Decade with substantial ch...
Income Tax : Tax Authorities around the world are facing the challenge as to determine the policy which will be most effective for long term vo...
Income Tax : 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 ...
Income Tax : Finance Minister exhorted Income Tax officers to be prompt in redressing the grievances of the tax payers and to deal firmly with ...
Income Tax : The disclosure of information respecting assesses under Section 138 does not, in general, prohibit furnishing of information about...
Fema / RBI, Income Tax : The present Government has taken various decisions and steps to curb the menace of black money both within and outside the country...
Corporate Law, Fema / RBI, Income Tax : The Government has not issued any guidelines regarding minimising daily financial transactions in cash to curb money laundering, b...
Custom Duty : In cases of outright smuggling or mis-declaration of baggage, the limits regarding value of offending goods have been revised from...
Goods and Services Tax : Saurabh Jindal & Yashik Jindal Vs Union Of India (Rajasthan High Court) In a significant legal development, the Rajasthan High...
Custom Duty : Explore the detailed analysis of the judgment in Babulal Qazi vs Union of India by Rajasthan High Court. Learn about the legal int...
Goods and Services Tax : Explore the full text of the Rajasthan High Court judgment on Mohammad Shadab Kadris bail application amid GST Act violations. Leg...
Goods and Services Tax : Explore the detailed analysis of the bail granted to Mohammed Ali Akram Khan vs Union of India by Rajasthan High Court. Learn abou...
Service Tax : Mere suppression of facts was not enough and there must be a deliberate and willful attempt on the part of the assessee to evade p...
Shift in the Focus of the Income Tax Department (ITD) from Civil Consequences to Criminal Consequences in Serious Cases of Tax Evasion; During 2014-15 (upto Dec, 2014) the ITD Has Conducted Searches in 414 Groups, Seized Undisclosed Assets of Rs. 582 Crore; Undisclosed Income of Rs. 6769 Crore has been Admitted by the Tax Payers […]
Service Tax officials have arrested Myron John Remedios, managing director of Rare Hospitality and Services Pvt Ltd, on the charge of collecting service tax to the tune of Rs 4.5 crore and not remitting the same to the department. The Managing Director of the company was allegedly involved in the day to day operations of […]
The Central Board of Excise and Customs(CBEC ) has detected a total Central Excise and Service Tax evasion amounting to Rs.3333.28 crore and Rs.10286.73 crore respectively up to February, 2012 in the Financial Year 2011-12. Further, during the investigation, Central Excise Duty and Service Tax amounting to Rs.972.69 crore and Rs.1182.64 crore respectively has also been realized.
The income tax department, known to be the largest litigant in the country, is working towards reducing the burden of court cases, a move which is in line with the National Litigation Policy mooted by the government last year. The department is mulli
Although the Income Tax Department is going all out to nab tax evaders in the high profile IPL-related cases, its past record shows that the agency managed to secure prosecution in barely 15 per cent of the cases. Going by this low prosecution rate, suspended IPL commissioner Lalit Modi and the franchisees he is said to have favoured, may not have much to worry about in the immediate future. That is assuming all the investigations against them result in chargesheets prosecutable in court.
Home minister P Chidambaram clarified in Parliament on Thursday that government agencies were fully authorised to tap the phones of suspected tax evaders. Chidambaram said the Central Board for Direct Taxes (CBDT) and other enforcement agencies were empowered to intercept phones to detect cases of tax evasion. However, he admitted that the present regime of phone-tapping needed more safeguards to prevent misuse.
Income tax evaders are being pushed into an increasingly tight corner – the I-T department is planning restructuring that will help assessing officers spend more time on an assessee than they do now. Currently in Mumbai, an assessing officer, the individual who actually detects tax evasion after going through the assessee’s files, scrutinises an average of 400 cases a year.
Income tax department in the past has stumbled up on many strange things, but nothing as strange as a company exclusively providing bogus stock contract notes to evade taxes, a trail that may lead to it knocking on the doors of many auditors. The Mumbai I-T department estimates that around Rs 1,000 crore of taxes may have been evaded by producing these bogus investment losses, and it now knows the beneficiaries too, a senior department official in the know of things said.
Last Year, The CBEC, had planned a Third Party Information System (TPIS), a third party information model for excise duty. Now CBEC requires to reproduce the trials with service tax. As per board, it is a very effective and non-intrusive set up to obtain all apposite data to trap the tax evaders.
Searches conducted by the Income Department are important means for unearthing black money. However, under the scheme before insertion of special procedure for assessment of search cases, valuable time is lost in trying to relate the undisclosed incomes to the different years. Tax evaders generally manage to divert the focus to procedural and legal issues and often invent new evidence to explain undisclosed income. By the time search r
