Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha, has informed the upper house of parliament that the Centre is taking necessary steps to deal with black money, where it will mostly focus on high impact cases with a view to prosecuting offenders at the earliest possible for credible avoidance against tax evasion, the government will be using IT tools to extract the data for the same. He further stated that this step to deal with black money includes putting in place robust legislative and administrative frameworks, systems and processes, where it will mostly focus on capacity building and integrating the information received from different sources.
Sinha said that the government has taken measures to combat black money, by way of policy level initiatives which include enactment of the Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015 as well as through effective enforcement action on the ground. He also said that the Special Investigation Team (SIT) which is investigating cases of black money stored abroad has already submitted three reports to Supreme Court.
Further, Sinha said that the Centre is renegotiating Double Taxation Avoidance Agreements (DTAAs) and expanding the scope of tax information exchange agreements (TIEAs) with several authorities to facilitate exchange of information. Government has signed multilateral automatic exchange of information (AEOI) in order to share tax data and also has made agreement with US under the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA) which will together facilitate India to get information about financial transaction done by Indian persons in other countries.
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