After Hindustan Times alleged BBC India had “confessed” to underreporting income, citing two unnamed officials, the New Indian Express quoted a third unnamed official saying the allegations did not seem correct.
The Hindustan Times report relied on officials from the Central Board of Direct Taxes, who said the British broadcaster had purportedly “confessed to underreporting” of Rs 40 crore of income. The officials called this “as good as ‘tax evasion’”. The newspaper quoted them as saying the BBC must “take the formal route to comply by filing revised returns and paying all dues, penalty and interests, which runs in several crores”.
