BBC admits it paid lower taxes in India

BBC on Tuesday accepted that the company has been paying lower taxes in India than its liability, Times of India reported quoting government sources. The broadcaster has been under the lens of the Income Tax department for a few months ago when authorities ‘surveyed’ its offices in Delhi and Mumbai for consecutive three days.

“It is only a statement of intent so far, there is no payment,” a TOI source said. A survey is an exercise to check books and other documents. The survey had come soon after the broadcaster aired a controversial documentary on PM Modi named 'India: The Modi Question'.

Without naming BBC, the I-T department on February 17, issued a statement regarding its survey operations on BBC offices in New Delhi and Mumbai.


In the statement, the department said that during the course of operation, evidences were gathered that indicated that tax has not been paid on certain remittances which have not been disclosed as income in India by the foreign entities of the group.

The I-T department had alleged that the income and profits disclosed by the organisation's units were “not commensurate with the scale of operations in India”. BBC had said at the time that it was cooperating with authorities.

(inputs from Times of India)