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...
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
The Income Tax department plans to immediately capture on receipt the data of returns filed by taxpayers to enhance their investigation and enforcement action to curb tax evasion and reduce tax gap over the next few years. The department is also mooting developing a ‘criminal investigation’ system within its establishment to combat terror financing, money laundering, offshore tax evasion and other illegal trades which impact national security.
Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday said the government is examining the decision of the Income Tax tribunal in the Bofors case and will decide the future course of action later. “As the Law Ministry has pointed (out), we are examining the
The revenue department of the finance ministry estimates that Corporate India could have evaded over Rs 20,000 crore in taxes in 2007-08 had it shown mark-to-market losses on forex derivative transactions. According to the income tax department, in t
Income tax sleuths unearthed under-invoicing and tax evasion of around Rs 86 crore by Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC), run by Karnataka’s Reddy brothers and also their trusted confidante and state health minister B Sriramulu. The scam that can furthe
The owners of Patel Engineering Limited, a listed company, admitted to the concealment of income of Rs 200 crore during searches conducted by the income tax (I-T) authorities. The company is mainly into construction of bridges, dams and highways. I-T authorities had searched 25 premises of the company and its owners in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Bangalore and Buldhana last Thursday and Friday.
The Income-Tax Department on Sunday conducted searches in over a dozen premises of an Ahmedabad-based real estate development firm for tax evasion. Over a dozen premises of Shaladia Construction were searched in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar for tax
Tax Evasions lead to deceleration in VAT revenues-study
In a move that is certain to invite charges of political witch-hunt, the income-tax department has opened investigations into 15 companies owned by rebel Congress MP Jagan Mohan Reddy, including Bharti Cements and Jagruti Publications, for allegedly evading tax.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has asked a committee to probe commercial transactions mentioned in some of the tapped conversations of corporate lobbyist Niira Radia. The committee headed by a Director-General in charge of Investigation, Delhi, will probe a transaction between Tata Realty and Infrastructure Ltd (TRIL), a Tata group firm, and real estate firm Unitech, in 2007, among others, finance ministry sources said.
