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The Income Declaration Scheme, 2016 - An analysis -
Last year, the Indian Government introduced a voluntary declaration of undisclosed foreign income and assets for resident taxpayers under the Black Money Act which met with limited success. A similar scheme is proposed by the Finance Bill, 2016 referred as ‘Income Declaration Scheme, 2016’ (‘IDS, 2016’). The possible benefits available to the taxpayers under the IDS, 2016 comparing the provisions of Black Money Act, existing penal provisions under Section 271(1)(c) and proposed penal provisions under Section 270A are…
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