#RealtyNewsRoundUp: Hiding Your Addresses? Taxman Will Find You

The government has amended rules and empowered the taxman to use banking, insurance and municipal corporation's database to obtain address of a “hiding” or an “untraceable” income tax defaulter for the issuance of notices or summonses to them and extract due taxes. Till now, tax authorities could only issue a notice to a defaulting or erring taxpayer according to the address provided by them in their PAN (Permanent Account Number), the ITR (income tax return) or other tax-related communication.

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Gujarat has constructed the highest number of houses for the urban poor under the Centre's flagship housing scheme Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana-Urban in the country, official data show. As many as 54,474 houses have been constructed in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's home state, since 2014-15 under the scheme. This accounts for 18.70 per cent of the 2.91 lakh total houses constructed in 36 states and union territories in the country, data available with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs show.

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Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has announced new Metro projects for Agra and Kanpur while saying that the work for setting up an airport at Jewar has been expedited. His government also plans to build two major expressways, one in Purvanchal and another in Bundelkhand. Referring to the inauguration of the Metro's Magenta line, which would improve connectivity in Noida, Adityanath said the event was the "foundation stone of the development of Noida and state".

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To enhance standards of cleanliness on beaches, the environment ministry has launched a pilot project for its clean-up and development. In a written reply in the Lok Sabha, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Mahesh Sharma said that under the project, each state or union territory (UT) had been asked to nominate a beach which would be funded through the ongoing Integrated Coastal Management Programme.

Source: Media reports