BBC reacts to fresh allegations of tax evasion: 'Cooperating fully on unpaid taxes'
India TV NewsBritish broadcaster BBC has communicated to the income-tax department that some of its past income, for its operations in India, could have gone unreported during the statutory filing of returns and hence it would like to amend it, news agency PTI's official sources said on Wednesday. Tax has not been paid on certain remittances by its foreign entities The CBDT, soon after the survey operation, issued a statement without naming the organisation in which it stated that the income and profits shown by various BBC group entities were "not commensurate" with the scale of their operations in India and tax has not been paid on certain remittances by its foreign entities. The CBDT said the survey found that "despite substantial consumption of content in various Indian languages, the income/profits shown by various group entities is not commensurate with the scale of operations in India." "The department gathered several evidence pertaining to the operation of the organisation which indicate that tax has not been paid on certain remittances which have not been disclosed as income in India by the foreign entities of the group," the CBDT had said.