AAP IS MIFFED WITH IT NOTICE OVER DONATIONS

The Aam Aadmi Party was on Monday served a notice of Rs 30 crore by the Income Tax department over donations received by it, a move Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal dubbed as the “height of political vendetta”.

“The IT department has announced that all the donations we received were illegal, and has put them under the category of taxable income, although we have maintained the records of each paisa that we received from the donors,” AAP National Treasurer Deepak Bajpai told media here.

The IT notice cited that the AAP had not disclosed income worth Rs 13.16 crore, and said the party’s total taxable income calculated by it was Rs 68.44 crore for financial years 2014-15 and 2015-16, and the money received as donations in its bank account was not recorded in the account books.

The notice also said the AAP had not recorded full details of at least 461 donors who had donated Rs 6.26 crore, each donation amount exceeding Rs 20,000. The AAP had also not disclosed a donation of Rs 36.95 crore on its web site and the party had failed to respond to 34 opportunities given to it.

Bajpai dismissed this saying the party has been keeping and maintaining books of accounts and other documents (of contribution in excess of Rs 20,000) under Section 13 A of the Income Tax act.

“We have been submitting a report to the Election Commission about the donations received as per the law,” he said. He added that the party was being targeted by different government agencies.

“The whole country knows how other parties finance themselves through black money, yet it is AAP which is being targeted. This shows that the IT notice is nothing but a vindictive action,” he said. NEW DELHI: About 8.77 lakh litres of liquor, Rs 1.60 crore in cash and gold and jewellery worth over Rs 8 crore have been seized by EC-appointed surveillance and expenditure monitoring teams in poll-bound Gujarat. The Election Commission teams had so far confiscated liquor valued at Rs 19.55 crore from the state where prohibition is in force. Apart from this, 3,650 British Pounds (about Rs 3.11 lakh) and 30,000 Thai Baht (about Rs 60,000) had also been seized by the EC teams, the data said. The 182-member Gujarat Assembly will go to polls in two phases on December 9 and 14. The counting of votes will be taken up on December 18.

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