The Congress has obtained contemporary notices from the Revenue Tax Division price Rs 1,745 crore for the evaluation years 2014-15 to 2016-17. With the most recent discover, the Division has now raised a complete demand of Rs 3,567 crore from the social gathering for the evaluation years 1994-95 and 2017-18 to 2020-21.
This comes a day after senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh announced on Saturday that “two extra notices had been despatched to us final night time”, whereas reiterating that the social gathering was being focused by “tax terrorism”.
Sources informed the PTI information company that the contemporary notices relate to 2014-15 (Rs 663 crore), 2015-16 (round Rs 664 crore) and 2016-17 (round Rs 417 crore).
“The authorities have ended the tax exemption accessible to political events and have taxed the social gathering for your entire assortment,” the sources added.
Additionally they stated the social gathering has been “taxed for ‘third-party entries’ made in diaries seized from a few of its leaders by probe companies throughout raids”.
On Friday, the Congress said that it received tax notices worth Rs 1,823 crore for the evaluation years 2017-18 and 2020-21, a day after the Delhi High Court dismissed four fresh petitions moved by the social gathering, difficult the Revenue Tax reassessment proceedings initiated in opposition to it.
The discover additionally included penalty and curiosity.
The 4 petitions dismissed by the court docket involved the evaluation years 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21.
Hitting out at the BJP on Friday, Congress MP Rahul Gandhi said the saffron social gathering “should keep in mind that when the federal government modifications, motion will likely be taken in opposition to those that have disrobed democracy”.
“Such exemplary motion will likely be taken that nobody will dare to do all this once more. That is my assure,” he tweeted on Friday following the tax discover.
(With inputs from PTI)
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