The
Times of India: New Delhi: Saturday, October 27, 2012.
The Central
Information Commission (CIC) has directed the income tax department to disclose
documents related to exemption given to the ICC World Cup held last year in the
country.
Information
commissioner Rajiv Mathur directed the department to make public the documents
placed before the Union Cabinet last year on the basis of which decision was
taken to grant the exemption. He, however, allowed the I-T department to severe
the portion of documents which it considers are exempted under the provisions
of the RTI Act.
The order
came on the plea of activist Subhash Agrawal, who had demanded documents
related to decision taken by the Union Cabinet to exempt income tax worth Rs 45
crore on the income generated during the ICC World Cup.
The
application seeking exemption from income tax was not disclosed by the I-T
department citing fiduciary clause of the RTI Act.
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