« Top Headlines » Open DEMAT Account in 24 hrs  ITR Filing 2025: These individuals are exempt from paying tax. Do they need to file returns?  Full List Of Trump's Reciprocal Tariffs Announced Wednesday  Top 5 tax-saving investment options for salaried individuals to consider before March 31, 2025  5 lesser lesser-known avenues of tax saving you can use to save income tax before March 31, 2025  March 15 is deadline for last advance tax installment: Know if you must pay «  Two additional SGs to deal with direct, indirect tax cases... Bihar dons corporate look, posts record tax mopup... » Top tax official in ACB net October, 06th 2007 V.G. Mekale, deputy commissioner, sales tax department, was caught red-handed by the state anti-corruption bureau (ACB) on Friday while taking a bribe of Rs 7 lakh from a builder in his office here. The builder, Yelappa Lohakare, had complained to the ACB that though he had submitted his sales tax returns from 1997 to 2004, the assessment was not being done by the department. In April 2006, he got a notice from Mekale saying that he must submit all pending dues. Though Lohakare produced the receipts of the tax paid by him, Mekale sent him a message saying he had to pay Rs 34 lakh as dues of work contract tax.