ISLAMABAD: The Finance Bill, 2021 has proposed to redefine the concealment of income by including suppression of receipts liable to tax.
According to budget 2021/2022 documents, the Finance Bill 2021 proposed to make amendment in the Income Tax Ordinance, 2001 regarding concealment of income.
The proposed amendment explains concealment of income includes –
“(a) the suppression of any item of receipt liable to tax in whole or in part, or failure to disclose income chargeable to tax;
(b) claiming any deduction or any expenditure not actually incurred; and
(c) any act referred to in sub-section (1) of section 111 of Income Tax Ordinance, 2001.
Explanation.- For the removal of doubt, it is clarified that where any item of receipt declared by the taxpayer is claimed as exempt from tax, or where any deduction in respect of any expenditure is claimed, mere disallowance of such claim shall not constitute concealment of income or the furnishing of inaccurate particulars of income, unless it is proved that the taxpayer deliberately claimed exemption from tax in respect of the aforesaid item of receipt or claimed deduction in respect of such expenditure not actually incurred by him.”
