-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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Parliamentary panel hears adverse views on demonetisation -Dilasha Seth & Amit Agnihotri
-Business Standard The demonetisation drive has hit job creation, beside adding to the stress on banks New Delhi: Demonetisation is expected to negatively impact the overall economy and job generation, a number of economists told Parliament's standing committee on finance. Reserve Bank governor Urjit Patel was to come but could not; he will do so on January 18. The panel heard four economists — former chief statistician Pronab Sen; Mahesh Vyas, head of...
More »Cash goalpost is changed, again -Jayanta Roy Chowdhury
-The Telegraph New Delhi: The RBI has said deposits of demonetised notes with a value of over Rs 5,000 would be allowed just once in a bank account between now and December 30. The announcement not only lengthened the list of abrupt changes enforced since the note recall was announced on November 8 but also fuelled suspicion that the government is trying to dissuade people from depositing demonetised notes. The value of such...
More »Income tax department to use analytics to look for discrepancies in bank accounts -Sachin Dave
-The Economic Times MUMBAI: For the first time, the income-tax department will use big data analytical tools to go through personal bank deposits to segregate black money holders from genuine tax-payers, two people in the know have said. While the government has used big data analytical tools for corporate tax reporting in some cases in the past, this is the first time that it will use analytics on such a large scale...
More »M Govinda Rao, ex-Director, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy (2003-13), interviewed by S Rajendran (The Hindu)
-The Hindu Centre for Politics and Public Policy Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement demonetising high denomination notes on November 8, 2016, will do little to address the prime objective of flushing out black money but will adversely affect the economy in the short term, especially the informal sector, which is predominant in India, says M. Govinda Rao, a Member of the Fourteenth Finance Commission and Emeritus Professor, National Institute of Public...
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