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The Income Tax Bill 2025 maintains existing powers for digital access during search operations without expanding them, protecting taxpayer privacy.

Income Tax Bill 2025: Digital Access Clarified

Officials confirm the Income Tax Bill 2025 maintains existing parameters for digital access in tax operations, ensuring privacy protection.

The Income Tax Bill 2025 reaffirms existing digital access measures for search operations, maintaining taxpayer privacy.

The new Income Tax Bill prescribes the existing process for tax authorities to gain access to the digital space or a computer device only during search and survey operations, and it is not aimed to breach the online privacy of common taxpayers even if their case lands into scrutiny, a top I-T department official said Monday.
The powers for such a coercive action "already existed" in the 1961 Act, and these have only been reiterated in the Income Tax Bill of 2025, he said.
The official rejected claims made in some reports and opinion pieces that the tax authorities have been granted "additional" powers to breach the passwords of electronic records, including email, social media handles and Cloud storage space of the taxpayers.
"Such reports are nothing but fear mongering. The tax department is not into snooping of social media accounts or online activities of a taxpayer.
"These powers are only to be executed during the course of a search or survey operation, and that too when the assessee being searched or surveyed refuses to share the passwords for digital storage drives, emails, Clouds and communication platforms such as WhatsApp and Telegram, etc.," the officer told PTI.
Section 247 of the Income Tax Bill, 2025, which is before Parliament at present, prescribes an authorised officer to gain access by "over-riding" the access code of computer system or 'virtual digital space'.
The government has brought the new Bill in order to change the decades-old I-T Act of 1961 with an aim to make the bulky direct tax law simpler and easier for the taxpayers.
Under the existing law, Section 132 enables an authorised officer to require any person who is found in possession of books, accounts or other documents in the form of electronic record to afford facility to inspect such documents and also to seize such document (including electronic record as per Section 2(22AA) of Income Tax Act, 1961).
"Tax crimes and the methods of tax evasion have attained a new level of sophistication with the advent of smart Internet-based tools and technology," the official said.
Gaining access to digital devices and spaces during coercive actions like search and survey is vital to find evidence and these raids are limited when you see the data," a second official said.
The tax department conducts about 100-150 "full blown" searches and surveys in a financial year, and this enforcement action is not aimed towards the common taxpaying individual or entity.
Also, out of the about 8.79 crore income-tax returns (ITRs) filed annually, only about 1 per cent are selected for scrutiny, the official said.
"The provisions related to 'virtual digital space' are not applicable even to these cases under scrutiny. It is applied only during the process of a search or survey and not even before this action is mounted.
"The tax department does not snoop or make a back door entry against any individual or entity through their social media accounts," the first official said.
As per officials in the tax department, gathering evidence from digital accounts is not only "essential" to prove tax evasion before a court of law, but also for computing the exact amount of tax evaded.
During search and seizure operations, it has been found in some cases that the person in control of books, documents and records, etc., does not cooperate with the proceedings or provide necessary facilities to access the evidence.
In this digital and e-enabled world, information is stored in servers and storage facilities abroad, which are not accessible from India and the access code is not provided by the person concerned.
In such circumstances, the entire exercise of search and seizure gets redundant and can result in the tax evader going scot-free, officials said.

Income Tax Department issues 22,000 notices for 2023-24 tax return discrepancies. Disparities in ITRs prompt action, including salaried, HUF, HNIs, trusts

22,000 taxpayers receive intimation notices over income tax discrepancies

Income Tax Department issues 22,000 notices for 2023-24 tax return discrepancies. Disparities in ITRs prompt action, including salaried, HUF, HNIs, trusts

The Income Tax Department has sent out a total of 22,000 intimation notices to taxpayers, comprising high-net-worth individuals, salaried individuals, trusts, and more, due to discrepancies found between their filed Income Tax Returns (ITRs) and the information on their Form 16 or Annual Information Statement (AIS). These notices were issued for the assessment year 2023-24 and were dispatched within the last 15 days.
Approximately 12,000 of these notices were sent to salaried taxpayers, following the discovery of disparities exceeding ₹50,000 between their claimed tax deductions in their returns and departmental statistics. Another 8,000 taxpayers in the Hindu Undivided Family (HUF) segment received notices due to an income disparity of over ₹50 lakh between their filed returns and the department's data.
Moreover, notices were also dispatched to 900 high net-worth individuals (HNIs) in cases where the disparity amounted to ₹5 crore or more and to 1,200 trusts and partnership firms when the disparity reached ₹10 crore or more.
The Income Tax Department's data analytics identified discrepancies in the returns of approximately 2 lakh taxpayers. These discrepancies involved income declarations, expenditures, or bank account details that did not align with the department's information based on transactions linked to their bank or UPI accounts.
Some taxpayers have overlooked including capital gains, dividend income, or even omitted information about additional bank accounts. The department emphasized that these discrepancies need to be addressed promptly. Also Watch: <a href="https://www.editorji.com/business-news/gst-collection-rises-by-11-to-approximately-rs-1-6-lakh-cr-in-august-revenue-secretary-1693567869314">GST collection rises by 11% to approximately Rs 1.6 lakh cr in August: Revenue secretary</a>

In the latest startup&nbsp;news that is stirring trouble, the Income Tax department has detected "undisclosed" income of more than&nbsp;₹&nbsp;224 crore after it recently raided Maharashtra-based unicorn start-up Infra.MarketThe Rs 6000 cr start up said it is cooperating with the authorities and is providing all necessary&nbsp;information after the IT department revealed the findings of searches conducted over 23 premises of the B2B e-commerce platform.Read/Watch Also: Startup&nbsp;founder lashes out at investorsThe CBDT said unaccounted cash worth Rs 1 crore and jewellery worth Rs 22 lakh have been seized till now. It also said the&nbsp;group has booked bogus purchases, made huge unaccounted cash expenditures, and obtained accommodation entries, aggregating to the tune of over Rs 400 crore.

Startup scandal! Tax raids reveal undisclosed income at one of the fastest growing unicorns 

Founded by Souvik Sengupta and Aaditya Sharda in 2016, Infra.Market is a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce firm.

Another startup scandal? Tax raids reveal undisclosed income

Founded by Souvik Sengupta and Aaditya Sharda in 2016, Infra.Market is a business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce firm.&nbsp;

In the latest startup&nbsp;news that is stirring trouble, the Income Tax department has detected "undisclosed" income of more than&nbsp;₹&nbsp;224 crore after it recently raided Maharashtra-based unicorn start-up Infra.Market The Rs 6000 cr start up said it is cooperating with the authorities and is providing all necessary&nbsp;information after the IT department revealed the findings of searches conducted over 23 premises of the B2B e-commerce platform. Read/Watch Also: <a href="https://www.editorji.com/business-news/trell-founder-lashes-out-ashneer-grover-deja-vu-haunts-startup-1647503397734">Startup&nbsp;founder lashes out at investors</a> The CBDT said unaccounted cash worth Rs 1 crore and jewellery worth Rs 22 lakh have been seized till now. It also said the&nbsp;group has booked bogus purchases, made huge unaccounted cash expenditures, and obtained accommodation entries, aggregating to the tune of over Rs 400 crore.

The Income Tax Department on Thursday raided premises linked to former NSE MD and CEO Chitra Ramkrishna in Mumbai as part of a tax evasion investigation against her and others, official sources said.
Ramkrishna is in the news after a recent Sebi order said she was steered by a yogi, dwelling in the Himalayan ranges, in the appointment of Anand Subramanian as the exchange's group operating officer and advisor to the managing director (MD).
Officials said the searches are aimed to check charges of tax evasion and financial irregularities against her and others.
Apart from this, the order said, Ramkrishna had shared certain internal confidential information, including financial and business plans of NSE, dividend scenario and financial results, with the yogi and even consulted him over the performance appraisals of the exchange's employees.    Ramkrishna was MD and CEO of NSE from April, 2013 to December, 2016.

Tax raids on former stock exchange boss who was steered by a yogi living in the Himalayas

Officials said the searches are aimed to check charges of tax evasion and financial irregularities against her and others.

The Income Tax Department on Thursday raided premises linked to former National Stock Exchange&nbsp;MD and CEO Chitra Ramkrishna in Mumbai as part of a tax evasion investigation against her and others.
Ramkrishna is in the news after a recent Sebi order said she was steered by a yogi, dwelling in the Himalayan ranges, in the appointment of Anand Subramanian as the exchange's group operating officer and advisor to the managing director.
Apart from this, the order said, Ramkrishna had shared certain internal confidential information, including financial and business plans of NSE, dividend scenario and financial results, with the yogi and even consulted him over the performance appraisals of the exchange's employees. &nbsp;&nbsp; Officials said the searches are aimed to check charges of tax evasion and financial irregularities against her and others.
Ramkrishna was MD and CEO of NSE from April, 2013 to December, 2016.

Ramkrishna is in the news after a recent Sebi order said she was steered by a yogi, dwelling in the Himalayan ranges, in the appointment of Anand Subramanian

The Income Tax Department on Thursday raided premises linked to former NSE MD and CEO Chitra Ramkrishna in Mumbai as part of a tax evasion investigation against her and others, official sources said.
Ramkrishna is in the news after a recent Sebi order said she was steered by a yogi, dwelling in the Himalayan ranges, in the appointment of Anand Subramanian as the exchange's group operating officer and advisor to the managing director (MD).
Officials said the searches are aimed to check charges of tax evasion and financial irregularities against her and others.
Apart from this, the order said, Ramkrishna had shared certain internal confidential information, including financial and business plans of NSE, dividend scenario and financial results, with the yogi and even consulted him over the performance appraisals of the exchange's employees. &nbsp;&nbsp; Ramkrishna was MD and CEO of NSE from April, 2013 to December, 2016.
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Antivirus software company founder John McAfee was found dead of a suspected suicide in his prison cell in Barcelona, Spain&nbsp; shortly after the court approved his extradition to the United States to face criminal tax evasion charges.McAfee, 75,&nbsp;was arrested last October at the international airport in Barcelona&nbsp;on the tax evasion charges filed in the US which carry a maximum possible sentence of 30 years in prison. The charge was of failure to pay taxes from 2014 to 2018 despite considerable income from&nbsp;promoting cryptocurrencies, consulting work, speaking engagements, and selling the rights to his life story for a documentary alleged the&nbsp;U.S. Justice Department in it's charges in October.&nbsp;
On Oct. 15, after being taken into custody, McAfee tweeted: &nbsp;&ldquo;I am content in here. I have friends.The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine,&rdquo;&nbsp;McAfee&rsquo;s death in custody is a d&eacute;j&agrave;&nbsp;vu of Jeffrey Epstein, the accused child sex trafficker and multimillionaire investor who died in a federal jail in Manhattan in August 2019 from what officials have said was a suicide by hanging.

Antivirus creator John McAfee dies by hanging in prison after court approves extradition

In a d&eacute;j&agrave; vu of&nbsp;Jeffrey Epstein case, antivirus software company founder John McAfee&nbsp;dies by hanging as court orders&nbsp;extradition.&nbsp;

Antivirus software company founder John McAfee was found dead of a suspected suicide in his prison cell in Barcelona, Spain&nbsp; shortly after the court approved his extradition to the United States to face criminal tax evasion charges. McAfee, 75,&nbsp;was arrested last October at the international airport in Barcelona&nbsp;on the tax evasion charges filed in the US which carry a maximum possible sentence of 30 years in prison. The charge was of failure to pay taxes from 2014 to 2018 despite considerable income from&nbsp;promoting cryptocurrencies, consulting work, speaking engagements, and selling the rights to his life story for a documentary alleged the&nbsp;U.S. Justice Department in it's charges in October.&nbsp;
On Oct. 15, after being taken into custody, McAfee tweeted: &nbsp;&ldquo;I am content in here. I have friends.The food is good. All is well. Know that if I hang myself, a la Epstein, it will be no fault of mine,&rdquo;&nbsp; McAfee&rsquo;s death in custody is a d&eacute;j&agrave;&nbsp;vu of Jeffrey Epstein, the accused child sex trafficker and multimillionaire investor who died in a federal jail in Manhattan in August 2019 from what officials have said was a suicide by hanging.

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