NEW DELHI: A daily wage worker in the Rohtas district of Bihar received a notice from the income tax department requesting that he pay 14 crores in returns.
According to the officials, a department team presented Manoj Yadav, a labourer, and resident of Kargahar village, with a notice for payment of 14 crores in income tax, on Saturday.
The officials claim that transactions totaling crores of rupees were recorded in his bank records, making him liable for paying income tax.
Yadav and his family were shocked when they learned of the notification. Yadav told the officials that despite selling his entire property numerous times, he was a daily wage worker and would not be able to make the required payment.
Yadav apparently had previously worked for private businesses in a variety of locations, including Delhi, Haryana, and Punjab, but following the Covid lockdown in 2020, he returned to his home in Bihar.
Yadav claimed that when he was hired by private companies, copies of his PAN and Aadhar cards were taken. He claimed that they had opened phoney bank accounts in his name and conducted transactions to evade paying taxes using his documents.
When tax inspectors went to Yadav's home to serve him with the notice, they were astounded to observe the family's financial situation.
The IT notice, according to Satya Bhushan Prasad, an income tax officer (ITO), was sent from headquarters.
Locals said that late on Monday night, Yadav and his family shut the door to their home and left for an unidentified location.
After conducting recent investigations against some Bihar-based corporate groups dealing in real estate and diamond jewellery, the Income Tax Department earlier this year discovered "unaccounted" income of more than Rs 100 crore.
About 30 locations in Patna, Bhagalpur, and Dehri-on-Sone in Bihar, Lucknow, and Delhi were subject to raids on November 17.
According to the Central Board of Direct Taxes, which develops tax department policy, the operation resulted in the seizure of unaccounted money and jewellery worth more than Rs 5 crore as well as the sealing of 14 bank vaults.
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