The Income Tax Department has launched a search and survey operation on leading coal traders in Assam, covering 21 locations across Guwahati, Digboi, Margherita, and Delhi. The traders are alleged to have channelled over Rs 23 crore through shell companies for non-genuine share capital and loans, suppressing their true profits. Investigations have uncovered out-of-books transactions totalling more than Rs 150 crore, including cash loans and stock discrepancies, with unexplained cash also being seized.
The Income Tax Department started a search and survey action on 04/12/2020 in the cases of leading Coal Traders of Assam. The search and survey actions are being carried out at 21 locations in Guwahati, Digboi, Margherita and Delhi.
The main allegations against the group are that it has routed ac
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FAQ :
The Income Tax Department commenced search and survey actions on 4th December 2020.
Search and survey actions were carried out at 21 locations in Guwahati, Digboi, Margherita, and Delhi.
The traders are accused of routing accommodation entries totalling more than Rs 23 crore in share capital and Rs 62 crore in unsecured loans through shell companies, while suppressing their net profits.
Handwritten documents regarding cash transactions, which were not in the regular books of accounts, were recovered. Out-of-books transactions exceeding Rs 150 crore were detected, along with cash loans over Rs 10 crore and a stock difference of over Rs 7 crore.
Yes, unexplained cash of approximately Rs 3.53 crore was found and seized by the Department.
In the office of a Kolkata-based shell company used by the group, no books of accounts or mandated documents were found, indicating it was a bogus entity used to route unaccounted income.