https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=30834 Entitlement to a reward for information on concealed income depends on proof that the disclosure actually led to additional revenue and satisfied the applicable guidelines. The plaintiff relied on a newspaper announcement and claimed his information produced extra tax recovery, but he produced no reliable evidence of such recovery. The burden remained on him to establish the factual basis for the claim, and the defendants were not required to disprove it or produce unrelated accounts. The reward was treated as ex gratia and discretionary, so no enforceable legal right arose merely from the announcement without proved entitlement. en-us Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 17:26:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=30834 Entitlement to a reward for information on concealed income depends on proof that the disclosure actually led to additional revenue and satisfied the applicable guidelines. The plaintiff relied on a newspaper announcement and claimed his information produced extra tax recovery, but he produced no reliable evidence of such recovery. The burden remained on him to establish the factual basis for the claim, and the defendants were not required to disprove it or produce unrelated accounts. The reward was treated as ex gratia and discretionary, so no enforceable legal right arose merely from the announcement without proved entitlement. Case-Laws Income Tax Thu, 16 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=30834