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After IT raids, Delhi-based assume tank CPR says assured it has accomplished nothing mistaken

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By ANI

NEW DELHI: After raids by the Income Tax division, the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), a Delhi-based assume tank on Friday claimed that it’s assured it has accomplished nothing mistaken.

CPR stated the I-T division visited its workplace to undertake a survey on September 7-8.

“We have extended full cooperation to the department during the survey and will continue to do so in the future. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of compliance and are confident that we have done nothing wrong. We are committed to working with the authorities to address any questions they might have. We remain committed to our mission to provide rigorous research to policymaking in India,” the assume tank stated in an announcement.

The Income Tax division on Wednesday carried out searches on the workplace of assume tank Centre for Policy Research (CPR).

Income Tax sources stated that the search was carried out primarily based on “credible information” about tax evasion.

The sources stated the search “is not linked to” the earnings tax searches underway throughout some states as a part of the probe into alleged tax evasion and monetary impropriety by unrecognised political events over donations acquired with out statutory compliances.

Regarding funding, the CPR web site says that the assume tank is recognised as a not-for-profit society by the federal government and contributions “are tax exempt”. It says CPR receives grants from the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) and is a Department of Science and Technology (DST) recognised establishment.

CPR says it’s a member establishment of the Think Tank Initiative (TTI), a programme of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

The web site states the assume tank receives grants from a wide range of home and worldwide sources, together with foundations, company philanthropy, governments, and multilateral companies.

According to CPR, it’s a non-profit, non-partisan unbiased establishment, devoted to conducting analysis that contributes to high-quality scholarship, higher insurance policies and a extra sturdy public discourse. It was established in 1973.

As one in every of 24 analysis institutes of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research community, CPR has all requisite approvals and sanctions, and is authorised by the federal government as a recipient underneath the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, the assume tank stated. 

NEW DELHI: After raids by the Income Tax division, the Centre for Policy Research (CPR), a Delhi-based assume tank on Friday claimed that it’s assured it has accomplished nothing mistaken.

CPR stated the I-T division visited its workplace to undertake a survey on September 7-8.

“We have extended full cooperation to the department during the survey and will continue to do so in the future. We hold ourselves to the highest standards of compliance and are confident that we have done nothing wrong. We are committed to working with the authorities to address any questions they might have. We remain committed to our mission to provide rigorous research to policymaking in India,” the assume tank stated in an announcement.

The Income Tax division on Wednesday carried out searches on the workplace of assume tank Centre for Policy Research (CPR).

Income Tax sources stated that the search was carried out primarily based on “credible information” about tax evasion.

The sources stated the search “is not linked to” the earnings tax searches underway throughout some states as a part of the probe into alleged tax evasion and monetary impropriety by unrecognised political events over donations acquired with out statutory compliances.

Regarding funding, the CPR web site says that the assume tank is recognised as a not-for-profit society by the federal government and contributions “are tax exempt”. It says CPR receives grants from the Indian Council for Social Science Research (ICSSR) and is a Department of Science and Technology (DST) recognised establishment.

CPR says it’s a member establishment of the Think Tank Initiative (TTI), a programme of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC).

The web site states the assume tank receives grants from a wide range of home and worldwide sources, together with foundations, company philanthropy, governments, and multilateral companies.

According to CPR, it’s a non-profit, non-partisan unbiased establishment, devoted to conducting analysis that contributes to high-quality scholarship, higher insurance policies and a extra sturdy public discourse. It was established in 1973.

As one in every of 24 analysis institutes of the Indian Council of Social Sciences Research community, CPR has all requisite approvals and sanctions, and is authorised by the federal government as a recipient underneath the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, the assume tank stated.