The Income Tax department is probing the error in sending advance tax notices to big taxpayers. In a recent post on 'X' also known as Tweeter, the Income Tax Department said that it had identified certain inconsistencies in the data of securities market tax provided by one of the reporting entities, which has been asked to submit revised statements and data based on updated information.
It is learned that the value of assets sent to the IT department by the stock market-related entities was shown higher by several thousands of crores since the reporting entity had added few zeros that amplified the advance tax liability.
The IT department told the taxpayers to whom the notices went, to be patient as the error would be ratified.
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The writer is author of the book: The Market Mafia - Chronicle of India’s High-Tech Stock Market Scandal & The Cabal That Went Scot-Free.
Palak has been a journalist in Mumbai for nearly two decades now. He has worked for most premier pink papers including The Economic Times, Business Standard and The Financial Express and The Hindu Business Line. He was drawn to crime reporting at the age of 19 but a few years in the field told him that the fabric of crime had changed and the organised gangs, as Mumbai had witnessed during the eighties, no longer existed. It was business and markets that dominated the scenario. His passion to unravel the intricacies of the ‘white money’ economy led Palak to the world of finance and regulations.