The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has detected several cases in which taxpayers claimed exemption on agricultural income despite declaring no land holdings, according to a report by The Times of India.
Using data analytics tools, tax authorities identified more than 300 suspicious cases where individuals claimed tax-exempt agricultural income ranging from Rs 50 lakh to as high as Rs 400 crore, even though the size of land declared by them was shown as zero.