-PTI NEW DELHI: The Income Tax Department has asked banks to report cash deposits in savings accounts between April 1 and November 9, 2016. The move seeks to analyze the banking transactions carried out in months before the Demonetisation decision was announced on November 8. Besides, banks have also been directed to ask the account holders, who did not furnish PAN (Permanent Account Number) or Form 60 (for those without PAN) at the...
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Govt wants details of cash deposited before note ban -Aanchal Magazine
-The Indian Express Finance Ministry says bank account holders must submit PAN by Feb 28 New Delhi: IN A new set of rules notified on Saturday, the Ministry of Finance has asked banks and post offices to furnish details of cash deposits made during April 1-November 9 last year for amounts adding up to Rs 2.5 lakh or more per person, in all accounts other than current accounts. For current accounts, banks and...
More »Punjab farmers plagued by pests and payment crunch -Aesha Datta
-The Hindu Business Line Sangrur and Samrala: In normal times, the grain mandi of Samrala is abuzz with the hum of agrarian commerce. These days, however, it lies virtually vacant, with only a handful of farmers coming to sell their produce. Joginder Singh Sahni says that usually the mandi is full of wheat and rice farmers selling their goods. Commission agents and other links on the commercial chain add to the...
More »What the RBI Should Do to Minimise the Impact of Demonetisation -Surajit Das
-TheWire.in People have lost their jobs, small businesses are closing down and the agricultural sector has been hit hard as a result of Demonetisation. The RBI must increase the supply of cash to curb further fallout. Money is not cash. In fact, cash in circulation was just 14% of all money in 2015-16 according to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). Measures of money also count close substitutes of cash including the...
More »Demonetisation U-turn? RBI now turns away people wanting to exchange Rs 500, Rs 1,000 notes
-PTI New Delhi: Hundreds thronging the RBI office to exchange old Rs 500 and 1,000 notes returned empty handed as the central bank is allowing the facility only for NRIs or those who were abroad during the 50-day Demonetisation period.' Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his address to the nation on 8 November, 2016 had said, "There may be some who for some reason, are not able to deposit their old 500...
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