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Ministry of Finance, Government of India

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Section 50

Punishment for failure to furnish in return of income, any information about an asset (including financial interest in any entity) located outside India

Section

Section Number

50

Chapter

Act

Black Money (Undisclosed Foreign Income and Assets) and Imposition of Tax Act, 2015

Year

Punishment for failure to furnish in return of income, any information about an asset (including financial interest in any entity) located outside India

Punishment for failure to furnish in return of income, any information about an asset (including financial interest in any entity) located outside India.

50. If any person, being a resident other than not ordinarily resident in India within the meaning of clause (6) of section 6 of the Income-tax Act, who has furnished the return of income for any previous year under sub-section (1) or sub-section (4) or sub-section (5) of section 139 of that Act, wilfully fails to furnish in such return any information relating to an asset (including financial interest in any entity) located outside India, held by him, as a beneficial owner or otherwise or in which he was a beneficiary, at any time during such previous year, or disclose any income from a source outside India, he shall be punishable with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than six months but which may extend to seven years and with fine:

1[Provided that this section shall not apply in respect of an asset or assets (other than immovable property), where the aggregate value of such asset or assets does not exceed twenty lakh rupees.]


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