TIL Desk/Business/New Delhi-Prosecution action by the Income Tax department in black money cases has shot up three times with the taxman filing over 570 such charge sheets across the country till January this year.
The department, as per an official report accessed, has also directed its field offices to not spare cases of “serious irregularities” in deposits ascertained by it under ‘Operation Clean Money’ after demonetisation and file court cases against such entities too.
The latest prosecution figures do not include action linked to demonetisation as such cases are still in the investigation stage, a senior I-T officer said. The report said I-T prosecution action in cases of tax evasion has jumped three hundred per cent to 570 complaints filed till January under the current 2016-17 financial year, as compared to 196 such complaints filed in courts during the corresponding period in the last fiscal across the country.
