New Delhi:
Finance Ministry on Friday said that those who have not taken advantage of the compliance window to declare their unaccounted overseas assets and come clean will regret.
The Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikant Das said that fight against black money is a part of economic reforms.
He said in a tweet that India can’t allow ghost economy to undermine real economy and growth.
Only 638 declarations for a total overseas wealth totalling Rs 3,770 crore were made during the 90-day compliance window under the Black money (undisclosed foreign income and assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015.
The one-time compliance window, under which persons having unaccounted overseas wealth could declare their assets and come clean by paying tax and penalty of 60 per cent, ended September 30.
As regard sharing of information, the government signed an agreement with the US on implementing the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), which allows automatic exchange of tax information between the two countries with effect from September 30.
Secondly, the multilateral Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) agreement, which will come into force from 2017, will help the government is getting tax related information from several jurisdictions across the world.
As on March 18, 58 jurisdictions (including India) have committed to share information under AEOI by 2017. A further 36 jurisdictions have committed to share by 2018, including jurisdictions which have beneficial tax regime.
