Property Black Money

Sandeshkhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan allegedly used an intricate web of dummy traders, numerous properties and multiple bank accounts to turn black money into white, the probe by Enforcement Directorate has found.

The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Centre to file reply on a plea seeking linking of immovable and movable property documents of citizens with their Aadhaar numbers to curb corruption, black money generation, and 'benami' transactions.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the Centre and AAP government on a petition seeking directions to them to link movable and immovable property documents of citizens with their Aadhaar number to curb corruption, black money generation and benami transactions.

Now a new investigative tool being launched by British authorities could serve as a powerful deterrent. But it is fraught, forcing wealthy individuals to demonstrate that they bought property with lawfully earned funds - a departure from legal precedent that required the state to prove the use of illicit money.

The Income Tax Department has launched a major operation to investigate cases of illegal funds and properties stashed abroad by Indians and may invoke the new anti-black money law for strict criminal action in many such cases, officials said on Monday.

Shortly after sunrise Thursday, authorities backed a tow truck onto Kate McClure and Mark D'Amico's property and hauled away a recently purchased BMW - a shiny black symbol of just how much their six-figure fundraising campaign to help a homeless veteran had soured into accusations of something much worse.

Over 780 benami asset attachments worth crores of rupees run the risk of being invalidated in the near future as the government has failed to create a designated adjudicating authority for over a year-and-a-half since the stringent law was enforced to deal with black money and corruption.

Sharing "specific information" with the income tax department about any benami transaction or property could earn you up to Rs one crore, while the same for undisclosed black money stashed abroad could fetch up to Rs 5 crore.

More than 900 properties including plot of land, buildings and bank deposits worth Rs 3,500 crores have been seized as part of the crackdown on benami properties declared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016.

The Income Tax Department today said some 14,000 properties worth over Rs 1 crore each are under its scrutiny as their owners have not filed tax returns

Sales in Mumbai jumped to the highest in seven years in the second quarter, according to property consultancy Liases Foras Real Estate Rating & Research Pvt.

Every fifth property registered in Telangana is a benami or proxy deal, according to the K Chandrasekhar Rao government, which has ordered a massive crackdown on government offices quietly registering dubious land transactions.

Scaling up the operation against black money and corruption, benami, or proxy-owned property worth Rs 600 crores has been seized by the Income Tax department over the last six months under a refurbished law that lets the government takeover properties bought in fake names. In all, the tax authorities have detected over 400 benami transactions in 24...

The Survey said, "A GST with broad coverage to include activities that are sources of black money creation - land and other immovable property - should be implemented."

The I-T department had earlier warned people against depositing their unaccounted old currency in someone else's bank account saying such an act would attract criminal charges under the Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988.

Sandeshkhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan allegedly used an intricate web of dummy traders, numerous properties and multiple bank accounts to turn black money into white, the probe by Enforcement Directorate has found.

The Delhi High Court on Monday asked the Centre to file reply on a plea seeking linking of immovable and movable property documents of citizens with their Aadhaar numbers to curb corruption, black money generation, and 'benami' transactions.

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued a notice to the Centre and AAP government on a petition seeking directions to them to link movable and immovable property documents of citizens with their Aadhaar number to curb corruption, black money generation and benami transactions.

Now a new investigative tool being launched by British authorities could serve as a powerful deterrent. But it is fraught, forcing wealthy individuals to demonstrate that they bought property with lawfully earned funds - a departure from legal precedent that required the state to prove the use of illicit money.

The Income Tax Department has launched a major operation to investigate cases of illegal funds and properties stashed abroad by Indians and may invoke the new anti-black money law for strict criminal action in many such cases, officials said on Monday.

Shortly after sunrise Thursday, authorities backed a tow truck onto Kate McClure and Mark D'Amico's property and hauled away a recently purchased BMW - a shiny black symbol of just how much their six-figure fundraising campaign to help a homeless veteran had soured into accusations of something much worse.

Over 780 benami asset attachments worth crores of rupees run the risk of being invalidated in the near future as the government has failed to create a designated adjudicating authority for over a year-and-a-half since the stringent law was enforced to deal with black money and corruption.

Sharing "specific information" with the income tax department about any benami transaction or property could earn you up to Rs one crore, while the same for undisclosed black money stashed abroad could fetch up to Rs 5 crore.

More than 900 properties including plot of land, buildings and bank deposits worth Rs 3,500 crores have been seized as part of the crackdown on benami properties declared by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2016.

The Income Tax Department today said some 14,000 properties worth over Rs 1 crore each are under its scrutiny as their owners have not filed tax returns

Sales in Mumbai jumped to the highest in seven years in the second quarter, according to property consultancy Liases Foras Real Estate Rating & Research Pvt.

Every fifth property registered in Telangana is a benami or proxy deal, according to the K Chandrasekhar Rao government, which has ordered a massive crackdown on government offices quietly registering dubious land transactions.

Scaling up the operation against black money and corruption, benami, or proxy-owned property worth Rs 600 crores has been seized by the Income Tax department over the last six months under a refurbished law that lets the government takeover properties bought in fake names. In all, the tax authorities have detected over 400 benami transactions in 24...

The Survey said, "A GST with broad coverage to include activities that are sources of black money creation - land and other immovable property - should be implemented."

The I-T department had earlier warned people against depositing their unaccounted old currency in someone else's bank account saying such an act would attract criminal charges under the Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988.