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Government won't follow 'suicidal' course on black money: Jaitley

Identity of 427 account holders abroad has been established and 250 of them have admitted to having accounts, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley revealed on Wednesday while asserting that the government...

25K individuals to get SMS/e-mails from I-T dept for non-disclosure of foreign assets

The Income Tax department will start sending SMS/emails to about 25,000 individuals, who are part of the "high-risk" cases identified for non-disclosure of foreign assets in the income tax returns...

CBDT Uncovers Rs 290 Bn Foreign Assets

In September last year, India received financial information from over 108 countries regarding foreign accounts and income in the form of interest and dividend earned outside India. Kindly note...

India, US sign FATCA to fight tax evasion

To check offshore tax evasion, India and the US on Thursday signed an agreement to implement FATCA that will facilitate exchange of information between the two countries from October 1. The Foreign...

As Fatca comes closer, 5 million folios risk closure

  Fatca was passed in 2010, as a crackdown on tax evasion through offshore investments by US residents. One in every 10 mutual fund folios (accounts) in this country is yet to comply with the...

10 things you need to know about FATCA

A Sebi circular dated June 30, 2014, said that the Indian government has agreed (in substance) to FATCA but a formal agreement is yet to be signed. Photograph: Romeo Ronaco/Reuters What is FATCA?...