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Five-fold plan to catch tax dodgers

February 28, 2011

By Jayanta Roy Chowdhury
The Calcutta Telegraph

NEW DELHI – Stung by the opposition charge that it hasn’t taken enough steps to crack down on corruption and black money, the government today said it had adopted a five-fold strategy to tackle the generation and circulation of black money.

Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee told the Lok Sabha, while presenting his budget for 2011-2012, that his five-fold strategy included joining a global crusade against black money, creating an appropriate legislative framework, setting up institutions for dealing with illicit funds, developing systems for implementation and imparting skills to manpower for effective action.

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