Under 'Operation Clean Money', the I-T department had sent SMS and e-mails to 18 lakh people
Polling in Vellore was scheduled on April 18.
The agency had received intelligence inputs that a huge amount of "unaccounted" cash is lying at the groups properties at Delhi and Noida.
Consensus seems a problem before the current session of Parliament ends.
The sources said the taxman has initiated a country-wide operation to identify suspect bank accounts where huge cash deposits have been made post November 8.
The EC has asked all departments to deploy round-the-clock flying squads, quick-response teams, and high-tech machinery to check money inflow. They are also to examine vehicles passing though check-posts, reports Shrimi Choudhary.
The Income Tax department has sent a detailed questionnaire to about 50 individuals and entities figuring in the list of those allegedly holding offshore assets in tax havens.
The SIT found and reported that there was no amount shown in almost 289 HSBC Geneva entries, while 122 of them were repeated twice in the same list.
Officials said the agency placed the seven, including the relative of a government official, under arrest on Monday under provisions of the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
ED has initiated action against these account holders in Mumbai, Delhi and other cities.
The income tax department is asked to keep names of blackmoney holders under wraps.
The states have unanimously pitched for sole administrative powers to carry out assessment, scrutiny and enforcement for entities up to an annual turnover of Rs 1.5 crore.
India has a double-taxation avoidance pact with Singapore and more than 85 countries.
The BJP said it is legal with adequate safeguards and in the interest of national security..
Fatca aims to track all US residents with non-US accounts and US citizens, too.
These entities have facilitated illicit transactions worth thousands of crores of rupees over the past 2-3 years
Tax wing scanning cash deposits between Rs 5-10 lakh
ED sought his custody for seven days, claiming it had knowledge of unidentified assets which value more than Rs 500 crore and his custodial interrogation was required.
Participating in an online session, a panel of Hindu-American women, from different walks of life, expressed their strong views in favour of President Trump.
A K Bhattacharya digs into the yet-to-be-public report on ways to curb black money and finds out that Modi's next moves could include action on dabba trading, hawala, and education.
The Enforcement Directorate has questioned Yash Birla, Chairman of Yash Birla Group, in connection with certain overseas financial transactions, officials in the central agency said on Monday.
Enforcement Directorate alleged that he was not cooperating and sought his custodial interrogation.
Court cases, investigations, dwindling sales and fall in market capitalisation could make recovery a tough challenge.
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.
Vadra, on Facebook termed as "witch hunt" the Enforcement Directorate's action of attaching assets of a firm linked to him, and claimed that it showed "complete misuse of assertion of power".
The Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday carried out searches at the Pune residence as also the office of Sunil Shinde, the chartered accountant of businessman Hasan Ali Khan, who is facing charges of money laundering and tax evasion.
About Rs 2,280 crore (Rs 22.80 billion) unaccounted income being allegedly routed through Private Placement Programme (PPP) has been detected by economic intelligence sleuths.
The average number of procedures for starting a business is seven among South Asian economies, it is 12 for India.
The government, Jaitley said, is committed to detecting and preventing generation of black money
'Efforts to roll out GST from next fiscal'
Ratul Puri, already under probe scanner of the agency in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case, has been arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with a Rs 354 crore bank loan fraud case.
The closure of BPSL would add about three million tonnes capacity to JSW Steel's existing 18 million tonnes.
The Special Investigation Team has suggested an upper limit of Rs 15 lakh on cash holding.
The Enforcement Directorate, which continued its searches against Modi, Choksi and their companies for the fourth day on Sunday , is also moving to attach at least two dozen immovable properties under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act.
Over 4 mn bank accounts could be dormant, suspects tax department.
The protesters poured into the city from different parts of the state, particularly the Vokkaliga stronghold of Old Mysuru region, in response to "Raj Bhavan Chalo" call given by various outfits of the community.
The development followed the arrest of chartered accountant Rajesh Kumar Agrawal by the ED.
Database to contain taxable financial transactions and history of any tax-paying individual.
The absence of criminal legal treaties between India and tax haven nations have been cited by probe agencies working in the SIT on black money as one of the major impediments in initiating steps to bring back illegal funds stashed abroad by Indians.
Schemes among the six wound up by the fund house had given a loan of Rs 518 crore against non-convertible debentures to the firm in March 2019, according to ED's chargesheet.
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