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Tax

Cash, no Cash

Many methods have been tried for elimination of black money; we had several rounds of demonetisation, several voluntary disclosure schemes, some schemes to regularise undisclosed foreign assets, and so on. The only commonality between all such measures was their failure to prevent generation of black money. Strategically declaring their black money, tax evaders took full advantage of the frequently announced Government schemes. However, not many of the tax evaders discontinued their tax evading ways, so, after a few years, things came back to square one

Cashed-strapped MCD finding new ways to tax properties

Earlier, in the name of making property tax uniform across Delhi, rates were hiked for North and East Delhiites. Now, other types of trivial methods are being resorted to. Corporation officials are trying to bring maximum properties out of 25 lakh properties under the wealth tax net.