Be Careful! Do you have many bank accounts?
The Income Tax Department has an eye on your many bank accounts!
SEP 01 (WTN) - It is only natural that you must be using the backing system. At the same time, when you use the banking system, you may have accounts in many banks. But, for your information, let's know that if you have opened accounts in many banks without any reason, then the Income Tax Department can send a notice to you.
Actually, it is believed that the Income Tax Department understands that if a person has many bank accounts, then the concerned person has opened so many bank accounts to convert black money into white. By the way, let's know that no such law has been made in India so far, which prevents any person from opening an account in more than one bank.
But, as far as the Income Tax Department is concerned, the Income Tax Department has a different view on the bank account matters. Actually, the Income Tax Department may think that if someone has opened accounts in many banks without any reason, then such accounts may be dummy accounts. At the same time, the account holder may be associated with any shell or fake company, and these accounts may be helping to convert black money into white?
Here, experts in the tax and banking sector believe that if a person has multiple bank accounts, and that person is not using those accounts, then he should close those accounts. That's why because in the case of many bank accounts, the Income Tax Department can send a notice to the concerned person, as well as the Income Tax Department can ask for information about all the accounts.
By the way, for your information, let's know that the Income Tax Department gets instant information through a computer how many bank accounts are opened on a PAN number. At the same time, information related to the banks is regularly available to the Income Tax Department. At the same time, if any person is depositing and withdrawing a large amount of money in his account, then the concerned bank immediately gives this information to the Income Tax Department.
Not only this, if a person has opened many bank accounts in different cities, then the concerned person is also eligible for doubt by the Income Tax Department. Indeed, when the banks did not have a centralized banking system, merchants used to open many accounts in many cities for their convenience. However, now, money is transferred instantly from the centralized banking system. In such a situation, if a person opens a bank account in many city, then the Income Tax Department can dout on this and get information from the concerned person by sending a notice. It is clear that if you have many bank accounts, then under these circumstances, you can come on the radar of the Income Tax Department.