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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Tussle over role in black money probe

Tussle over role in black money probe

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published Published on Jul 15, 2011   modified Modified on Jul 15, 2011
-The Telegraph
 
The finance and law ministries have locked horns over who will lead the battle against black money.

A meeting of a finance ministry probe team under the chairman of the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has been put off indefinitely following a Supreme Court order to set up a special investigative team (SIT), headed by former apex court judge B.P. Jeevan Reddy, to probe illicit funds.

While the panel was expected to meet in the first week of July, the finance ministry has now questioned the role of another probe agency when a committee was already looking into the matter.

The Centre has now approached the Supreme Court seeking a review of its decision to set up a parallel team.

The government in May had announced a committee to examine ways to tighten laws to curb black money and prevent the flight of these funds abroad.

The panel was supposed to submit its report within six months.

“We (finance ministry) are seeking their (law ministry) views ... some decision is likely in 2-3 days,” Prakash Chandra, chairman of the CBDT, told reporters.

In its first meeting last month, the panel had asked the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence and the Enforcement Directorate to review the existing legislation. The committee is also exploring the option to make tax evasion a criminal offence.

Earlier this month, the Supreme Court criticised the government for its failure to bring back illicit funds abroad and formed an SIT to probe the matter. The SIT will file its first status report in the third week of August, the order said.

However, because of the lack of a clarification about the apex court’s order, any report or progress to curb the generation of black money was expected to get delayed, said analysts.

The government had also set up the Directorate of Income Tax (Criminal Investigation), which officials said would be modelled on the US’s IRS criminal investigation department and be headed by a chief commissioner of income tax.

Meanwhile, India will host the annual Asia Pacific Group (APG) meeting on money laundering later this month.

According to a finance ministry statement, the meet, scheduled from July 18 to 22 at Kochi, will “provide a platform for high-level discussion and co-operation and will evaluate the progress made by APG members in implementing the international standards to combat money laundering and stop the financing of terrorism”.

The Kochi meet assumes significance at a time India has taken a strong position in the fight against black money.

India took over as co-chair in the Financial Action Task Force in February this year.

The FATF is an inter-governmental body whose purpose is the development and promotion of policies, both at national and international levels, to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.

The Telegraph, 16 July, 2011, http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110716/jsp/business/story_14245932.jsp


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