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The Income Tax section has started sending SMS and email advisories to taxpayers for wrongful deduction claims related to unrecognised governmental parties oregon charitable institutions, the Finance Ministry said connected Saturday (December 13, 2025).
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) said done information investigation it has observed that immense magnitude of bogus claims person been made connected relationship of donations to Registered Unrecognised Political Parties (RUPPs) oregon Charitable Institutions and reduced their taxation obligations and person besides claimed bogus refunds.
"A targeted NUDGE run has been launched arsenic a taxpayer-friendly measure, providing them accidental to update their ITRs and retreat incorrect claims, if any. SMSs and Email advisories are being issued from 12th December 2025 to specified taxpayers connected their registered mobile numbers and emails," the Finance Ministry said successful a statement.
The CBDT said that grounds gathered from enforcement actions indicated that RUPPs, galore of which were non-filers, non-operational astatine their registered addresses, and are not engaged successful immoderate governmental activity, were being utilized arsenic conduits for routing funds, hawala transactions, cross-border remittances, and issuing bogus receipts for donations. The CBDT carried retired follow-up searches against immoderate of these RUPPs and trusts and gathered incriminating grounds successful respect of bogus donations by individuals and bogus CSR by companies, it said.
CBDT's information analytics indicated that galore taxpayers are suspected to beryllium indulged successful claiming deductions for donation made to suspicious entities oregon person not provided applicable accusation to ascertain the genuineness of the entities.
A ample fig of taxpayers person already revised their Income Tax Returns for the existent AY that is 2025-26, and person filed updated ITRs for past years, it added.
"Every payer is advised to guarantee that close mobile and email IDs are mentioned successful their filings with the Department truthful that they bash not miss retired immoderate communication," the CBDT said.
