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Service tax & Bachchan family Central Chronicle - 22 hours ago Raising questions by Jaya Bachchan in Rajya Sabha on enquiry by tax-department on spent of florists and beauticians in much talked-about Aish-Abhishek marriage in her family is totally uncalled for. Bachchans vs Taxman: Wedded to controversies CNN-IBN Jaya Bachchan in Parliament: Government misusing service tax laws IBOS Calcutta Telegraph all 5 news articles

{Raising questions by Jaya Bachchan in Rajya Sabha on enquiry by tax-department on spent of florists and beauticians in much talked-about Aish-Abhishek marriage in her family is totally uncalled for. Earlier also, Samajwadi Party had unnecessarily made a political issue of a normal recovery-notice from Income Tax Department issued to Amitabh Bachchan. Rich celebrities like Amitabh Bachchan have consultants and assistants to tackle such day-to-day affairs concerning tax-department. Even at that time, it was propagated that Big B was issued tax-recovery notice in the hospital, which everyone knows is not permissible or possible.


Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) should set up special celebration-cells in all IT circles where prior intimation of any function with budget exceeding Rs 10 laks may be made compulsory. Complete expense-details of all marriage-related or other functions with budgets exceeding Rs 10 lakhs should be compulsorily filed in these cells. Gifts and cash spent by relatives and friends should also be taken as part of marriage-expenses to avoid unaccounted spent-money as having spent by others! }