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The Issue Of Black Money

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HOW CAN THE ISSUE OF BLACK MONEY IN INDIA BE AVOIDED

INTRODUCTION

In India, the term black money refers to the illegally procured income by the owner in the black market, such as drug trafficking, weapons trading, terrorism, goods supply to black market and lastly corruption which includes giving and taking bribes and illegal commissions, as this income is earned in the black market so evasion of custom duty, excise duty, corporation and income tax take place and it is used for fulfilment of personal needs and luxury. Black money is moved by the method called Hawala. Under this method, hawaladars take the money from the sender in country A and inform their correspondent in country B to hand over the amount to the recipient in country B …show more content…

Somewhere this statistic proves that India is a very corrupt country. Bringing back the black money has been promised by many prime ministers of India but till date, no one has been successful. According to White Paper on Black Money, May 2012 , Swiss National Bank estimates that the total amount of deposits in all Swiss banks, at the end of 2010, by citizens of India were CHF 1.95 billion (INR 92.95 billion, US$2.1 billion)

Key dates in black money case

2009: Germany hands over a list of Indian account holders in LGT Bank, Liechtenstein, a European principality. Senior Lawyer Ram Jethmalani files PIL in SC seeking a direction to the government for taking action to bring back money stashed in foreign banks

2011: France hands over list of 782 Indian citizens who allegedly hold HSBC accounts in Geneva

May 27, 2014: New NDA government sets up a high-powered Special Investigative team (SIT) headed by retired Supreme Court (SC) judge MB Shah to look into the issue of black money and slush funds.

October 16, 2014: Government tells SC disclosing the names of those who have deposited money in banks abroad jeopardise tax agreements with nations providing those names to India.

2016: The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) has released the full list of

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