Reuters | | Posted by Ritu Maria Johny
The BBC did not provide a “convincing response” to Indian tax authorities in the past and the current survey on the organisation was connected to transfer pricing rules and diversion of profits, a senior Indian government official said on Wednesday.
Tax officials searched the BBC’s premises in Mumbai and Delhi for a second day on Wednesday.
The income tax survey was not vindictive or “done out of a sense of pique”, Kanchan Gupta, Senior Adviser at the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, told Times Now news channel.
The BBC told employees in an internal note on Wednesday that India is looking into questions about the BBC’s structure, activities and tax status.