Income Tax : This article explains how provisions of the Income Tax Act, GAAR, and the Benami law are used to tackle shell companies, unexplain...
Income Tax : The Supreme Court clarified that tax planning is valid only when backed by real commercial substance. It held that artificial stru...
Goods and Services Tax : The rise of AI-generated influencers and synthetic commercial actors is testing identity-based tax systems. The article explains h...
Income Tax : Courts distinguish lawful tax planning from criminal concealment. Recent rulings stress commercial substance and strict penalties ...
Income Tax : Indian law permits legitimate tax planning but strictly penalises concealment and fraud. Courts distinguish lawful avoidance from ...
Goods and Services Tax : The Delhi South CGST Commissionerate has arrested a key person linked to three firms for allegedly evading ₹16.30 crore in GST t...
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 ...
CA, CS, CMA : Government surveys tax evasion, improves services, and details state-wise tax collections, highlighting growth in direct and indir...
Goods and Services Tax : Details of GST evasion cases by cryptocurrency exchanges in India, including investigations and actions taken by the Government of...
Income Tax : Delhi High Court ruled that prosecution under Income Tax Act Sections 276C and 278E can proceed when evaded tax exceeds Rs.25 cror...
Goods and Services Tax : The Court held that with investigation complete and evidence being documentary, continued custody was unnecessary. Bail was grante...
Goods and Services Tax : High Court directs authorities to investigate sale of frozen chicken at 0% GST instead of 5%, ensuring enforcement action against ...
Goods and Services Tax : Alipurduar Court rejects Naresh Kumar Agarwala's pre-arrest bail plea in ₹17 crore cement smuggling case, citing serious allegat...
Goods and Services Tax : Andhra Pradesh HC allows petitioners summoned in GST evasion probe to have advocate present during examination, citing apprehensio...
Goods and Services Tax : CGST, Vadodara, upon intelligence developed through data analysis, have booked a case of issuance of fake invoices valued at Rs. ...
Goods and Services Tax : DGGI arrested a managing Director (MD) of a company Following intelligence developed by the officers that fake invoices were recei...
Goods and Services Tax : The officers of Daman Cornmssionerate have detected a case of default in GST payment against Mrs Radha Madhav Corporation Limited ...
Goods and Services Tax : The registration procedure under Goods and Services Tax Act is simplified with the objective of ease of doing business. After onli...
Excise Duty : Circular No. 1009/16/2015-CX Whoever commits any of the offences specified under sub-section (1) of Section 9 of the Central Exci...
The disclosure of information respecting assesses under Section 138 does not, in general, prohibit furnishing of information about tax evaders.
Section 115BBE seems to be the biggest loophole in the Income Tax Act, 1961 whereby, any person can evade tax on concealed income of previous years by declaring such accumulated income as income of current financial year and paying tax @ 30%+surcharge+cess thereon (without causing any penalty, interest and prosecution).
To deal firmly with the problem of planned and deliberate non-compliance of tax laws, and put in place deterrent provisions to discourage default, concept of deterrent Action against Tax Evaders was inserted under Central Excise Laws
Few Words about the scheme:- i. The Income Declaration Scheme,2016 is incorporated as Chapter IX of Finance Act 2016 and is covered in section 181 to section 199. ii. It shall come into force on 1st day of June 2016
India is moving towards a lower tax regime with non-litigious approach. Thus, while compliant taxpayer can expect a supportive interface with the department, tax evasion will be countered strongly. Capability of the department to detect tax evasion has improved because of enhanced access to information and availability of technology.
India, today took another major step in the fight against tax evasion, round tripping and base erosion/profit shifting. The Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has given its approval for signing of an Agreement and the Protocol between the India and Cyprus for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to Taxes on Income.
TWO YEARS RIGOROUS IMPRISONMENT TO TWO PRIVATE PERSONS AND A DSP OF CBI FOR EVASION OF CUSTOMS DUTY The Special Judge for CBI cases, Chennai has convicted Sh. G. Vinod Kumar Gollapudi & Sh. Natha Venkata Vathsa Vardhan, both private persons and Sh. K.A.A. Salaam, DSP, CBI for evasion of customs duty. Sh. K.A.A. Salaam […]
Arjun: Who can participate in Income Declaration Scheme 2016 (IDS) introduced under Finance Act, 2016 by the Indian Government? Krishna: Following is a list of people, – Every Indian Resident who is guilty of his practices of tax evasion and wants to confess the same.
The present Government has taken various decisions and steps to curb the menace of black money both within and outside the country in last two years. Some of the major decisions and actions taken in this regard are given below:
The Government has not issued any guidelines regarding minimising daily financial transactions in cash to curb money laundering, black money and so on. However, the plans of Government to render black money and fake notes circulating in the market ineffective are as under: –
