The Supreme Court on Wednesday issued notices to the Centre and the Reserve Bank of India on a petition seeking probe into the alleged money laundering by the trustees of Mumbai's Lilawati Hospital.
The last date for filing Income-Tax returns has been extended by three months from July 31 to October 30.
Since arraignment under money laundering is a tougher offence, the CBDT hopes it will also overcome its dismal score sheet to prove satisfactorily to the courts that these cases were genuine ones of tax evasion.
Some companies are charged with undervaluing their assets.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India may now have to shell out more than Rs 100 crore, as the income tax department is set to penalise it for concealing details of its commercial activities.
The new I-T return forms make things more complex. Even trustees or nominees are in for a tough time.
The government has decided to relax angel tax norms for startups, including increasing the investment limit to Rs 25 crore for availing income tax concessions.
The step had been taken to lend the required 'authenticity' to electronic communications.
The former Satyam Computer's founder, Ramalinga Raju, had confessed in early 2009 to having falsified the company's accounts for years.
Authorities will allow the country's taxpayers to access the mutual agreement procedure (MAP) for cross-border disputes. This is even if they had settled the case under the direct tax dispute resolution scheme - Vivad se Vishwas - without deviating from the outcome of the scheme, said the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) on Monday. However, non-resident taxpayers, who opted for the resolution scheme, cannot go for MAP on the same issue, it clarified. MAP is an alternative dispute resolution mechanism under the tax treaties where competent authorities of two countries enter into discussions to resolve tax-related disputes.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes has suggested to income tax departments across the country to go slow on refunds for at least a fortnight.
Around 75 per cent of total returns are expected to be e-filed in current year.
The Income Tax Department has detected "concealment of income" to the tune of Rs 17 crore after recent raids on institutions linked to former Maharashtra home minister Anil Deshmukh and his family members, official sources claimed on Monday.
The finance ministry has directed the Central Board of Direct Taxes to put in place a framework for an Advance Pricing Agreement mechanism, two officials familiar with the development said.
The deduction is in case of senior citizen is Rs 60,000.
The Budget announcement of taxing 'virtual digital assets' or crypto currencies will help the income-tax department measure the "depth" of this trade in the country, know the investors and the nature of their investments and it does not "attach any legality" to these transactions, Central Board of Direct Taxes chairman J B Mohapatra said.
Finance Ministry issues strict instructions on foreign bank accounts.
The issue of delayed refunds was not a healthy trend and was tarnishing the department's image.
The income tax department is asked to keep names of blackmoney holders under wraps.
The Income Tax Department detected bogus expenditure claims and alleged transfer of share capitals worth crores of rupees through shell companies after it recently raided some entities in Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh, including people linked to the Samajwadi Party.
A senior Central Board of Direct Taxes official told Business Standard the Income Tax department had decided to intensify its vigil on the non-payment of TDS on interest earnings and non-disclosure of such income in the tax return.
Transactions were allegedly not reported correctly in the tax returns for FY20.
Most of the individuals hail from Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Surat, and Delhi
In spite of having various appellate tribunals and commissions within its establishment, the Income Tax Department has registered a more than two-fold rise in appeals in Supreme Court in cases involving crores of rupees of the exchequer.
Hasmukh Adhia to present revenue dept's performance over past year & plan for current financial year
Central Board of Direct Taxes chairman Sudhir Chandra told Business Standard that the changes have been approved in principle and necessary instructions would be issued soon.
Salaried taxpayers with no other income could get a respite from filing tax returns.
Home Minister P Chidambaram has asked the Central Bureau of Investigation and Central Board of Direct Taxes to probe the leakage of the conversations between corporate lobbyist Niira Radia, leading business tycoons and media persons.The tapes, first leaked by a national magazine, have now found their way to several media organisations and journalists.On Monday, the apex court directed the government to probe the leakage of the tape.
A senior Central Board of Direct Taxes official told Business Standard the department had initiated an extensive exercise under which it was sending notices on money kept abroad on the basis of tips/leads from tax authorities in various countries and also transaction data over recent years.
CBDT to reopen cases, conduct detailed inquiry of taxpayers who invested in such shares
The income tax department will share PAN and bank account details of any entity with 10 investigative and intelligence agencies, including the CBI and NIA, under the integrated counter-terrorism platform NATGRID, according to an official order.
Like the UPA government, probably the NDA government also feels that hardships caused to taxpayers are just collateral damage and that taxpayers are too few and even those few don't have a vote (non-individuals) or don't vote, says Harsh Roongta.
Cairn tax demand has not reduced investors' enthusiasm: Jaitley
Only salaried individuals, pensioners or those earning interest income can use the new form.
The government would not withdraw fringe benefit tax, which was introduced in the 2005-06 Budget, but the process would be made less painful, Central Board of Direct Taxes chairman M S Darda said on Friday.
As many as 97,689 people had more than Rs 1 crore gross income in 2018-19 AY against 81,344 in the previous year, shows official direct tax data.
The court said the company had misinterpreted the assurance of the tax department that it would set aside its earlier order seeking Rs 617 crore.
