AHMEDABAD: Gujaratis
declared a whopping Rs 18,000 crore in four months flat under the
Income Declaration Scheme (IDS), about 29% of the total unaccounted
money disclosed across the country.
This happened between June
and September 2016, before black money hogged the spotlight courtesy
demonetisation and even ahead of property dealer Mahesh Shah’s
disclosure of illegal income of Rs 13,860 crore.
In a reply to an
RTI query, the Income-Tax (I-T) department stated that over Rs 18,000
crore was declared in Gujarat under IDS from June 2016 to September 2016
— 29% of the total declaration of Rs 65,250 crore under the scheme.
It
took I-T department nearly two years to provide the information that
RTI applicant Bharatsinh Jhala had sought in his application of December
21, 2016, after Ahmedabad-based property dealer Shah’s Rs 13,860 crore
declaration. His IDS was, however, cancelled after he defaulted on
payment on the first instalment.
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