Jaya’s Veda Nilayam attached since 2007 for unpaid I-T arrears
Sureshkumar.K@timesgroup.com
Chennai:25.01.2019
For about 10 years preceding her death, former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, it turns out, had been living in a house that had been attached by the income tax department due to non-payment of tax dues of ₹16.74 crore.
The fact tumbled out in the Madras high court on Thursday, when the I-T department said Veda Nilayam, Poes Garden residence of Jayalalithaa, had been attached since 2007.
A few other properties of Jayalalithaa — 18, Ground Floor, Parsn Manor, Anna Salai, Chennai; 213/B, St Marys Road, Chennai, and 8-3-1099, Plot No 36, Sri Nagar Colony, Ella Reddy Guda, Hyderabad — were also attached, said senior standing counsel for the department A P Srinivas.
The counsel made the submissions during the hearing of a PIL filed by social activist K R ‘Traffic’ Ramaswamy seeking to restrain the Tamil Nadu government from converting the Poes Garden residence into a memorial.
In a recent hearing, a division bench of Justice Vineet Kothari and Justice Anita Sumanth had directed the income tax department to inform the court whether it had any objection to converting the house property into a memorial.
In response, the department made the above submission and informed the court that it was concerned with assessment and recovery of taxes only under direct tax laws and that it did not have any view on the decision of the government and the prayer sought for by the petitioner.
I-T KEEPS IT UNDER WRAPS:
The TN government plans to convert J Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden residence into a memorial
Jaya memorial plea adjourned to Feb 7
Srinivas further sought two weeks to file another affidavit giving the position of assessments, appeals, if any, and recovery of outstanding arrears of tax assessed and the steps taken for recovery of the same and also the stand of the department in the matter of recovery of such arrears of tax and whether for those reasons, it had any objection to the relief claimed in the present writ petition for creating a memorial to Jayalalithaa in such property under attachment of the department.
To this, advocate general Vijay Narayan submitted that such tax dues could be cleared with the compensation the state would be providing for acquiring the property. Narayan also submitted that it would be proper to implead the estate of the latechief minister in the present writ petition. “Regarding the demands of the income tax department asindicatedin thesaid affidavit the state may be permitted to file a memo to place on record who should be impleaded on behalf of the estateof thelatechief minister,” Narayan said. Recording the submissions, the bench adjourned the plea to February 7 for further hearing.
Sureshkumar.K@timesgroup.com
Chennai:25.01.2019
For about 10 years preceding her death, former chief minister J Jayalalithaa, it turns out, had been living in a house that had been attached by the income tax department due to non-payment of tax dues of ₹16.74 crore.
The fact tumbled out in the Madras high court on Thursday, when the I-T department said Veda Nilayam, Poes Garden residence of Jayalalithaa, had been attached since 2007.
A few other properties of Jayalalithaa — 18, Ground Floor, Parsn Manor, Anna Salai, Chennai; 213/B, St Marys Road, Chennai, and 8-3-1099, Plot No 36, Sri Nagar Colony, Ella Reddy Guda, Hyderabad — were also attached, said senior standing counsel for the department A P Srinivas.
The counsel made the submissions during the hearing of a PIL filed by social activist K R ‘Traffic’ Ramaswamy seeking to restrain the Tamil Nadu government from converting the Poes Garden residence into a memorial.
In a recent hearing, a division bench of Justice Vineet Kothari and Justice Anita Sumanth had directed the income tax department to inform the court whether it had any objection to converting the house property into a memorial.
In response, the department made the above submission and informed the court that it was concerned with assessment and recovery of taxes only under direct tax laws and that it did not have any view on the decision of the government and the prayer sought for by the petitioner.
I-T KEEPS IT UNDER WRAPS:
The TN government plans to convert J Jayalalithaa's Poes Garden residence into a memorial
Jaya memorial plea adjourned to Feb 7
Srinivas further sought two weeks to file another affidavit giving the position of assessments, appeals, if any, and recovery of outstanding arrears of tax assessed and the steps taken for recovery of the same and also the stand of the department in the matter of recovery of such arrears of tax and whether for those reasons, it had any objection to the relief claimed in the present writ petition for creating a memorial to Jayalalithaa in such property under attachment of the department.
To this, advocate general Vijay Narayan submitted that such tax dues could be cleared with the compensation the state would be providing for acquiring the property. Narayan also submitted that it would be proper to implead the estate of the latechief minister in the present writ petition. “Regarding the demands of the income tax department asindicatedin thesaid affidavit the state may be permitted to file a memo to place on record who should be impleaded on behalf of the estateof thelatechief minister,” Narayan said. Recording the submissions, the bench adjourned the plea to February 7 for further hearing.
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