Indian black money piled up to Rs 45 lakh cr abroad: FICCI

10 Jul 2012 Evaluate

The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI), reveals that about Rs 45 lakh crore of black money remains hidden abroad, which is counts about 50 percent of India's GDP, and nine times the size of India's fiscal deficit.

In the back drops of Indian economy struggling with slowdown, FICCI urged the government to address the issue of repatriation of black money to immediately mitigate the Balance of Payment (BoP) situation by entering into global revenue sharing agreements. It is estimated that India will become a fiscal surplus nation if the government succeeds in bringing back at least 10% of the black money stashed abroad.

FICCI, to curtail the illegal money mounting up has suggested that tax incentives should be insisted for encouraging use of debit, and credit cards as these lead to audit trails. The chamber emphasized that the introduction of GST might trim down the black money and also urged the early implementation of the proposed indirect tax regime.

Albeit, Indian government  has tasked three institutes; NIPFP, NIFM and NCAER  to conduct separate studies to estimate quantum of black money both inside and outside the country, the lack of aggressiveness points that some governments between themselves have entered into administrative agreements for revenue sharing. While India is estimated to post a fiscal deficit of Rs 5.13 lakh crore or 5.1% of the GDP in the current financial year.

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