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Income Tax Department (ITD)

Income Tax Department (ITD)

The main responsibility of the Income Tax Department is to enforce various direct tax laws, most important among these being the Income-tax Act, 1961, to collect revenue for the government of India. It also enforces other economic laws such as the Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Act, 1988,[6] and the Black Money Act, 2015.