The Chief Income Tax Commissioner (Bihar-Jharkhand) Kailash Chandra Ghumaria on Friday stated that his department has identified over 400 cases where tax evasion have taken place in name of ‘donation’ of adivasi land to non-tribal people interested in acquisition of property in state circumventing the SPT and the CNT Acts.
The IT Commissioner said that as sale and purchase of land was prohibited under the acts,the adivasis have ‘donated’ their land to non-tribal people and received large amount of money from the latter as payment.
He said that in such cases the adivasi receiving the money has to pay the capital gains tax.
He added that those using black money to make payment in lieu of the land would also be prosecuted.
Ghumaria revealed that so far 400 have been found in Deoghar area adding that similar inquiry would be held other parts of the state.
He added that action has already been initiated in 108 cases.
He stated it was but one of the several ‘out of the box’ measures taken by his department to increase tax collection in Jharkhand. He stated that 272 cases have been identified where the assesse have shown exorbitant agriculture income to save taxes.
He added that 1412 cases have been listed in which tax evaders are routing their own money through companies based in Kolkatta and receiving them as loans.
He added that tax department is examining cases of joint development agencies where people give their land near the urban localities for development in lieu of monetary gains.
People getting the money should be paying the capital gains tax which they are not doing.
He added that bogus refund scam is also taking place in the state where large number of person has claimed refund illegally.
He said that 403 such cases have been identified in Ramgarh while 856 have been identified in Bokaro.