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UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly raised the issue of the BBC's tax obligations during a meeting with Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar in Delhi on Wednesday.
Their anxieties have intensified after the IT surveys on the BBC. Govt spokesperson says they shouldn’t demand ‘special privileges’.
The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) earlier issued a statement without naming the media organisation and said that the income and profits shown by various BBC group entities are not commensurate with the scale of their operations in India
The Income Tax survey on BBC offices in Delhi and Mumbai that started on Tuesday over a charge of deliberate non-compliance with Indian laws concluded nearly after 60 hours.
India has fallen 10 spots to 150 out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index since 2014