News Your email and social media account can be accessed by income tax officers starting next financial year in these cases

[TEUser2K1]

Your email and social media account can be accessed by income tax officers starting next financial year in these cases

Your email and social media account can be accessed by income tax officers starting next financial year in these cases - The Economic Times

Starting April 1, 2026, the income tax department will have the authority to access social media, emails, and other digital spaces to curb tax evasion. This has been granted to them under the new income tax bill. This will also include search and seizure powers over your assets and documents...

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Starting April 1, 2026, the income tax department will have the authority to access social media, emails, and other digital spaces to curb tax evasion. This has been granted to them under the new income tax bill. This will also include search and seizure powers over your assets and documents, which have raised major privacy concerns. Experts warn of challenges to fundamental privacy rights without judicial oversight and procedural safeguards.

 

[Kaching999]

This a major privacy and FOS breach, it is nothing more than a move to have a upper hand over the citizens, how is this even legal?

 

[TEUser2K1]

This a major privacy and FOS breach, it is nothing more than a move to have a upper hand over the citizens, how is this even legal?

Have posted this earlier, those innocuous comments about China, the frequent shrilling about emergency times, etc. are nothing but inner clamoring to have those powers while blaming others. Those comments from some politicians are not because they abhor such events, but their hidden wish to have those powers.

 

[lockhrt999]

Those broke-ass b!tches flaunting new clothes, cars, gold on ig, gonna learn.

 

[TEUser2K1]

Those broke-ass b!tches flaunting new clothes, cars, gold on ig, gonna learn.

Don't count on them paying income tax anyways, if they are broke.

 

[bssunilreddy]

UAE does not have Income Tax it seems. Let us all immigrate to UAE...

 

[TEUser2K1]

No problem in paying income tax, but the percentage matters.
It should be rational, how govt. spend it should matter too, aka less corruption, etc.
UAE have VAT, lot of other charges when you deal with govt., still gives several times better living situation in a country which is much expensive to live than India. If you send enough Indians, that place too can turn into India.