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 ...
Income Tax : One of the main ways the government raises money is through taxes, which also have a big impact on a nation's economic growth. In ...
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...
Amid increasing cases of tax evasion, frauds and corruption, Indian government on Tuesday announced it would revamp its nodal economic intelligence agency. President Pratibha Patil has sanctioned the constitution of a committee that will make recommendation to restructure the Central Economic Intelligence Bureau (CEIB), the finance ministry said in a statement.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee today said revenue authorities have detected tax evasion of about Rs 1 lakh crore during the past 18 months as a result of international cooperation as well as domestic surveillance. “Almost one lakh crore of rupees, may be a little less than that, we have been able to bring under the tax net in last 18 months,” Mukherjee said while replying to the general discussion on Budget in Rajya Sabha.
India has decided to press for removal of a distinction between tax evasion and tax fraud which has helped Indians conceal their income in tax havens abroad. Pranab Mukherjee This is part of India’s drive to get back the monies abroad. Sources said a number of countries have refused to give information on the ground that tax evasion was not an offence under their law but if tax fraud was included, they would cooperate.
Excise department has claimed to have unearthed an excise duty theft of Rs 57 crore during a raid at an illegal ‘gutka’ manufacturing unit here. Two staffers of the gutka factory have been arrested and search was on to trace its owner, central excise officials said here today.
India has entered into a Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) with the Bahamas. The Agreement was signed on 11th February 2011 by the High Commissioner of India to Jamaica (concurrently accredited to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas) on behalf of
India has entered into a pact with the British Virgin Islands for exchange of information to check tax evasion and money laundering. This is the third Tax Information Exchange Agreement (TIEA) — as it is known in the parlance of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) — signed by India.
The government has constituted a group of experts to suggest measures to encourage tax evaders to disclose their unaccounted income voluntarily.The finance ministry’s move comes at a time when the country is debating a crackdown on black money.The la
Dismissing the perception that Switzerland is a tax haven, a senior Swiss government official today expressed hope that the revised tax avoidance treaty with India will be ratified during the year, following which Swiss authorities would provide administrative assistance to India to deal with cases of tax evasion.
A Swiss Parliamentary Committee has given the go-ahead to the revised tax treaty between India and Switzerland that would eventually allow Indian government access to secret Swiss bank accounts of Indian tax evaders. The amendments to the treaty will now be placed before the Swiss Parliament for final approval.
A tax evasion racket involving over 400 firms, most of which are based in the city, has come to light. The state sales tax department, which busted the racket, claimed that its initial assessment showed that the racket involved transactions worth Rs
