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Note ban succeeded in finding black money, controlling corruption: Jaitley

23 Mar 2018 Evaluate

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the government's demonetisation drive succeeded in finding black money in Indian market and controlling corruption. He also said that at the time of historic note ban on November 8, 2016, high-denomination currency notes of Rs 1000 and Rs 500 amounting to Rs 15.44 lakh crore were in circulation. Besides, he said that at the rate, Specified Bank Notes (SBNs) were growing in previous years, SBNs would have become of the order of about Rs 18 lakh crore in December, 2017. He added that the circulation of high value notes came down to 13.34 lakh crore last December, therefore, circulation of high value notes have been brought down effectively.

Jaitley has stated that as high denomination notes have been used for storing black money and in corruption, it may be concluded that note ban did control corruption and the generation of black money. Besides, he pointed out that demonetisation serving other objectives of eliminating fake currency, stopping terror financing, promoting formalisation of economy, promoting digital payments, also succeeded in unearthing black money and preventing corruption. He also said that after demonetization move, the Department of Revenue had launched ‘Operation Clean Money’ on January 31, 2017 and in its first phase, around 18 lakh persons were identified in whose case, cash transactions did not appear in line with the tax payer's profile.

The minister further said that online verification of such cash transactions was enabled and the information in respect of identified cases was made available in the e-filing window of the PAN holder. He noted that nearly 11 lakh persons submitted online response. He said that high risk cases have been made available to the field formation for effective monitoring and follow up. He also informed the House that data analytics was being used to match information in IT returns with cash deposit data and identify high risk cases/ groups for necessary verification/investigation.

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