Budget 2024-25: Black Money Act Liabilities to be Settled Against Seized Assets from October 2024

Adjusting liability under Black Money Act, 2015 against seized assets

Section 132B of the Act in its existing form provides that any existing liability under the Income-tax Act, 1961, the Wealth-tax Act, 1957(27 of 1957), the Expenditure-tax Act, 1987 (35 of 1987), the Gift-tax Act, 1958 (18 of 1958) and the Interest-tax Act, 1974 (45 of 1974), and the amount of liability determined on completion of the assessment or reassessment in consequence of search or requisition, may be recovered from the taxpayer out of the seized assets under section 132 or requisitioned under section 132.

2. Further, Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015 provides for taxation of undisclosed foreign income and undisclosed foreign assets. After the introduction of the said Act, such undisclosed foreign income and value of undisclosed foreign asset is taxed under Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015 in place of the Income-tax Act, 1961.

3. In this regard, it has been observed that most of the liabilities arising under the Acts administered by the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) have been covered in section 132B of the Act, for the purpose of extinguishment of liability by recovery out of the seized assets, except the liabilities arising under Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015.

4. In view of the above, it is proposed to insert the reference of Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015 in the section 132B of the Income-tax Act, 1961 so as to recover the existing liabilities under Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015, out of seized assets. 

5. This amendment will take effect from the 1st day of October, 2024. 

[Clause 40]