Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman defended the new Income Tax Bill, 2025, highlighting digital surveillance in curbing financial fraud. Revealing that WhatsApp messages and Google Maps ...

The new income tax bill, effective from April 1, 2026, allows authorized officers to access locked physical and digital ...

Unaccounted money to the extent of Rs 400 crores has been detected when the encryption has been taken off. Evidence that has ...

"Google Maps history helped identify frequently visited ... The Finance Minister explained that allowing tax officials to access digital communication—such as emails, WhatsApp, and Telegram ...

FM Sitharaman said the new Income Tax Law did not give legal backing to check digital assets. The government has added ...

as well as Google Maps have been helping in gathering evidence. The bill, which has now been passed by the Lok Sabha, introduces significant provisions that legally empower tax authorities to ...

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Google Maps history found on phone was used to determine ... Sitharaman also said the central government may scrap a 6% tax on digital online advertisements, which, introduced in 2016, taxed ...

Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday defended the provisions of the new Income Tax Bill, 2025, in Parliament, citing how WhatsApp messages helped unearth Rs 200 crore unaccounted ...

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Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday defended the provisions of the new Income Tax Bill, 2025, in Parliament, citing how WhatsApp messages helped unearth Rs 200 crore unaccounted money ...