CA, CS, CMA : ITIRS 2018 encourages citizens to report substantial tax evasion, guaranteeing confidentiality and structured rewards. False repor...
Income Tax : The CBDT's Income Tax Informants Reward Scheme 2018 offers rewards up to ₹5 crore for specific, written information leading to t...
Income Tax : An in-depth analysis of how agricultural income tax exemptions are used for evasion, with suggestions to curb misuse and protect s...
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...
CA, CS, CMA : Over ₹6.34 lakh crore in unpaid taxes linked to untraceable defaulters. Govt takes measures like asset tracking and account free...
Goods and Services Tax : DGGI blocks 357 illegal gaming websites, freezes Rs. 126 crore across 2,400 accounts, and cautions public against offshore online ...
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...
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...
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
India and Switzerland will soon start negotiations to enlarge the scope of their bilateral double taxation treaty to allow sharing of details of bank accounts of people accused of tax evasion, visiting Swiss Vice-President and Minister of Economic Affairs Doris Leuthard said on Thursday.
Government has no plans to bring a new amnesty scheme for tax evaders and wants to amend the Indo-Mauritius tax treaty to curb its abuse by companies, the Rajya Sabha was informed on Tuesday. VDS schemes in the past offered amnesty to people declaring black money and paying tax. But VDS schemes cannot be hugely successful […]
Search and seizure operations by the revenue authorities have forced tax evaders in the national capital to cave in and admit that they owe the government more than Rs 860 crore (Rs 8.6 billion) for the last fiscal. According to an official report of the department, taxmen carried out search, seizure and survey operations in nearly […]
The Department of Sales Tax has issued 1 lakh notices to traders in the last two months for tax evasion. It has also filed 431 FIRs against them for not filing returns. Raids, surveys and business audits have been further intensified. Sources said that hundred of crores of bogus bills and hawala transactions have been unearthed by the department while spreading its dragnet for tax evaders.
