Question : OUTSTANDING INCOME-TAX



(a) the names of the top hundred companies/persons againstwhom the maximum amount of income-tax is still outstanding;and

(b) the action being taken against them to recover the same?

Answer given by the minister


MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE (SHRI GINGEE N. RAMACHANDRAN)

(A) The names of top hundred companies/persons against whom the Maximum amount of income-tax is outstanding is given in Annexure-A.

(b) Appropriate action, as provided for under the Income Tax Act, is taken for collection of arrears. Such action includes charging of interest and levy of penalty for non-payment and attachment of movable and immovable assets etc.

Annexure-I

LIST OF TOP HUNDRED COMPOANIES/PERSONS AS ON 30.6.2000

Sl.No.	Name
1. Sahara India Financial Corpn. Ltd(SISICOL)

2. Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd.

3. Oil & Natural Gas Commission

4. Sahara India Mutual Benefit Co. Ltd.

5. Ganapati Exports Ltd. 6. IFCI Ltd.

7 Gas Authority of India Ltd.

8. Tata Chemicals Ltd.

9. Growmore Research & Assets Management Ltd. 10. Fairgrowth Financial Services Ltd. 11. The Peerless General Financial & Inv. Co. Ltd. 12. The Premier Automobiles Ltd. 13. Asia Satellite Telecommunication Co. Ltd. 14. Canara Bank 15. Tata Sons Ltd. 16. Gujarat State Fertilizer Co. Ltd. 17. Ganapati Combines Ltd. 18. Tata Power Co. Ltd. 19. Dhanraj Mills P, Ltd. 20. East West Travel & Trade Links Ltd. 21. Cascade Holding P. Ltd. 22. Mideast India Ltd. 23. Kuber Mutual Benefit Ltd. 24. REPL Engg. Ltd. 25. Indian Petrochemicals Corpn. Ltd(IPCL) 26. NEPC Micon Ltd. 27. Larson & Toubro Ltd. 28 Kedia CastleDelion Industries Ltd. 29 Rajendra Steels Ltd. 30 R.M. Machines(P) Ltd. 31 Bajaj Auto Ltd. 32 Caribjet Inc. 33 Sabre Group 34 Lucent Technologies Pvt. Ltd. 35 Growmore Leasing & Invst. P. Ltd. 36 Maruti Udyog Ltd. 37 Ericsson Radio Systems A.B. 38 Nokia Network 39 Tata Engg. & Locomotive Co. Ltd. 40 Asea Brown Boveri Ltd. 41 Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. 42 Mahanadi Coal Fields (P) Ltd. 43 Andhra Valley Power Supply Co. Ltd. 44 Shaw Wallace & Co. Ltd. 45 Cochin Refineries Ltd. 46 Essar Steels Ltd. 47 Metropolitan Co-op. Bank Ltd. 48 Northern Coal Fields Ltd. 49 Asian Consolidated Industries Ltd. 50 CRB Capital Market Co. Ltd. 51 Tata Finance Ltd. 52 Indian Hotel Co. Ltd. 53 Bombay Burmah Trading Corpn. Lftd. 54 Orson Electdronics Ltd. 55 Rushebh Capital & Finance Ltd. 56 Spectrum Power Generation Ltd. 57 Maharashtdra State Electricity Board 58 Tata Hydro Electric Power Supply Co. Ltd. 59 Gujarat Electdricity Board 60 Arvind Mills Ltd. 61 Apollo Tubes & Steel Industries Ltd 62 Okara Agro Products Pvt. Ltd 63 JVG Finance Ltd 64 Trident Steel Ltd 65 IDBI 66 Patel India P. Ltd 67 Western Coal Field Ltd 68 Pathija Forgings & Auto Parts Mfg. Co. Ltd. 69 Chinar Cigarrattes P. Ltd. 70 ANZ Grindlays Bank (Foreign Bank) 71 Amadeus Marketing 72 Allied Signal Ind. 73 Essar Projects Ltd 74 Airpoort Authority of India 75 Indian Overseas Bank Ltd. 76 Wipro Finance Ltd 77 Harshad S. Mehta 78 Hiten P. Dalal 79 Bhupendra C. Dalal 80 Ashwin S. Mehta 81 S. Ramaswamy 82 Jyoti H. Hehta 83 Sudhir S. Mehta 84 Subrato Roy 85 Harshad S. Mehta (W.T.) 86 J.P. Gandhi 87 Niranjan J. Shah 88 Pallav S. Sheth 89 P.K. Sharma 90 Uday M. Acharya 91 Surendra M. Khandar 92 Shirish C. Shah 93 Kalpesh L. Thakkar 94 S.K. Jain(Director of BEC Ltd) 95 Bimal S. Gandhi 96 A.D. Narottam 97 Lt. Col. Bhawani Singh & Others(Indl.) W.T. 98 Pratima H. Mehta 99 Super Cassetes Industries Ltd. 100 Deepika A. Mehta(Smt.)