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CA, CS, CMA : Government surveys tax evasion, improves services, and details state-wise tax collections, highlighting growth in direct and indir...
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Goods and Services Tax : Andhra Pradesh HC allows petitioners summoned in GST evasion probe to have advocate present during examination, citing apprehensio...
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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 ...
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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 Income Tax department has slapped a Rs 135-crore demand notice on Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS couple Arvind and Tinu Joshi for alleged tax evasion. The department had conducted searches in Bhopal and other premises of the 1979-batch couple during the financial year 2009-10 and after scrutiny of their financial holdings and assets, a tax demand notice has been issued against them a few days back.
Sixteen number of imported luxury cars have been seized in the country during the recent past between April,2011 to July 2011.They are valued at Rs.6.75 crores and involves evasion of duty of Rs.4.87 crores. All Customs field formations have been sensitized and alerted to prevent smuggling of imported cars into the country. Action under the provisions of the Customs Act, 1962 has been initiated against the importers.
In a major haul, the city’s tax department has detected tax evasion in undeclared sale of diamonds worth Rs 5,150 crore which were imported through the Delhi airport. Teams from trade and taxes department carried out raids at premises of 29 importers and dealers of diamond across the city and discovered the evasion of VAT to the tune of more than Rs 100 crore.
Taking a step forward against black money, the Finance Ministry has asked the Income Tax Department to launch immediate prosecution action in tax evasion cases wherein tangible assets and investments are located in foreign shores. The department has been asked to do away with the norm of taking permission from higher authorities to initiate legal action and begin proceedings against tax evasion.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has appreciated the action taken by India in handling tax evasion and black money issues. During the two day high level Seminar held on 13th and 14th June on “Adopting Tax System and International Tax Rules to the New Global Environment : a Shared Challenge for India and the OECD” at Vigyan Bhavan in New Delhi, both OECD and India decided to enhance their cooperation in dealing with issues relating to transfer pricing and promote better tax compliance and measures to improve the prevention and regulation of cross border dispute.
The government can do without making tax evasion a criminal offence as the existing income tax laws , which provide for rigorous imprisonment up to seven years for willful default, has not been used effectively to unearth black money , say experts . ,One can be jailed for seven years (rigorous imprisonment ) for willful evasion of tax (above Rs.1 lakh).
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today exuded confidence that modified tax avoidance agreements with various countries and pacts with tax havens will help in dealing with the menace of black money. Income Tax Department is engaged in ways to tackle with black money, he told reporters on the sidelines of an income tax conference here.
Grappling with the problem of blackmoney, India on Wednesday asked the international community to impress upon non-cooperative jurisdictions to share information about funds stashed there. The governments of those countries should share tax information through regular instruments, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said at the Governors’ seminar at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) meet.
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.
CBDT has also lauded the Mumbai IT department on April 19, which released a book aimed at plugging tax avoidance or evasion techniques by India Inc. The CBDT has further indicated that pending corporate refunds are no longer a matter of concern.
