Is the Tax Department listening to your calls? Read on to find out!

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Is the Tax Department listening to your calls? Read on to find out!
Oct, 2020
By Vikash Dhanania

Namaskar!

The extent to which technology is used by Tax Departments in different parts of the country is increasing every day.

We get to hear about new cases every day, and in this post, we talk of one such case where the Department gathered phone records and even called recordings.

Read on to know some details and what you can learn from the story!

The High Court Judgement

The information is in reference to the case no.

CRM-M-31157 of 2020 IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH

If you feel like reading the complete case, please feel free to do so and for all others who want to know the gist of it and the most important thing, here it is -

The case is about an FIR filed accusing a transport business owner in Punjab who is accused of tax evasion. The allegations state that tax was being evaded by making sure there were no checks conducted for the truck transporting goods.

The businessman is accused of bribing tax officials regularly.

Who did the department track all this?

The officials of the vigilance department pinpointed the mobile phone numbers of the businessman and other people involved.

Many people, including the clerk and driver, were being tracked. The officials collected call recordings and got to know of the officials involved by listening to the calls after taking due permission from appropriate departments. These calls were tracked for one year.

It would be pertinent to note that the office of the taxpayer was also raided from where register containing the details of payment made from various officials etc. was recovered, computers and other electronic equipment used for tax evasion were seized.

It also helped the officials get to know that bogus bills were used to evade tax.

What do I get to know from this?

The tax department is tech-savvy and will use all possible technology mediums to track tax evasion.

The usage of technology to track things have increased exponentially, and your business is also tracked in some or the other.

What can I do to make sure I am abiding by the rules and avoid problems?

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