Intrusions without probable cause
Starting in April 2026, tax officers in India may be able to force open not just your safes and filing cabinets but also your WhatsApp, cloud storage, and encrypted chats.
Starting in April 2026, tax officers in India may be able to force open not just your safes and filing cabinets but also your WhatsApp, cloud storage, and encrypted chats.
The salary portal for the teaching and non-teaching staff in West Bengal Government schools continues to show on the payrolls the names of the 25,753 staff members whose jobs were terminated following an order by a Division Bench of the Supreme Court last week.
Tata Steel received an income tax order on Friday which increases its FY 2019 taxable amount, pertaining to the merger of Bhushan Steel with the Tata Group company back in 2019. Bhushan Steel has been renamed as Tata Steel BSL Limited, the company stated.
Sleuths of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Income Tax (IT) Department conducted a search-survey operation at more than 20 places in Rajasthan on Friday.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s recent tabling of the Income Tax Bill, 2025, marks a significant shift in India’s tax landscape.
“The Central government has let loose the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in Chhattisgarh, raided our leaders, arrested some of them, but we managed to make the convention (plenary) successful,” the Congress president said.
Income Tax officials are conducting a survey on the Indian offices of the British public broadcaster BBC, sources said on…
Deputy Secretary Saumya Chaurasia was detained after months of grilling and raids by the federal agencies including the Income Tax.
He also directed the officials to register complaints of excesses perpetrated on officials and businessmen detained by the ED.
A Finance Ministry release said Direct Tax collections up to November 10, 2022, show that gross collections are at Rs. 10.54 lakh crore, which is 30.69 per cent higher than the gross collections for the corresponding period of last year.