O.P. Yadav Former Principal Commissioner of Income Tax Department and Tax Evangelist Prosperr.io

With the Income-tax Act, 2025 (the New Act) set to kick in on April 1, 2026, the upcoming Finance Bill, 2026 gives us an opportunity to re-think how India handles tax enforcement, especially regarding offences that could lead to prosecution.

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The NITI Aayog’s recently published working paper on tax policy, “Towards India’s Tax Transformation: Decriminalisation and Trust-Based Governance,” has proposed a detailed framework to rationalise and modernise criminal provisions under the Income-tax Act. The Finance Ministry should take a close look at the recommendations in this paper while putting

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