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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Govt tracking spending of HNIs, babus, netas -Pradeep Thakur

Govt tracking spending of HNIs, babus, netas -Pradeep Thakur

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published Published on Dec 4, 2012   modified Modified on Dec 4, 2012
-The Times of India

The income tax department's '360 degree profiling' had resulted in former corporate lobbyist Niira Radia's contacts with several bigwigs coming to light. She may have fallen off the radar but the government plans to strengthen the mechanism with finance minister P Chidambaram initiating a pilot project with the FIU (Financial Intelligence Unit) to integrate data on all suspicious transactions with the '360 degree' database.

Financial transactions of hundreds of suspicious high net worth Indians in the country and abroad have been tracked by the I-T department for at least six years now. These transactions include credit card expenditure, cash transactions, foreign travels and investments in share markets and in luxury gadgets. On the radar are politically exposed persons, including people from bureaucracy, political parties, judiciary, industrialists and media persons among others.

The I-T department has started working with the FIU to integrate all suspicious transaction reports generated by the latter with its own dossiers. One example of 360 degree profiling was the Radia case, in which the I-T department not only tracked all expenditure made by her firms but also transactions related to her associates and people she had been interacting with, including politicians, journalists, judges and bureaucrats.

The decision to strengthen the profiling was taken after a recent meeting Chidambaram held with heads of all revenue intelligence agencies and the FIU.

"With regard to chronic tax evaders and 360 degree profiling, director FIU explained that the Central Board of Direct Taxes would provide the identification parameters, such as details of permanent account number of suspects, his or her address and other linked businesses. On submission of these details, the FIU will share all matching information in its databases for integration with the 360 degree profiles," an official said.

The I-T department has been collecting data for its 360 degree profiles in Delhi with 20 other offices set up in different directorates general of I-T investigation in prominent cities across the country monitoring suspicious persons and their associates. As part of these profiles, the family tree of an individual or a business group is maintained and all associates and front entities linked to such individuals are constantly monitored.


The Times of India, 4 December, 2012, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Govt-tracking-spending-of-HNIs-babus-netas/articleshow/17471286.cms


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