New Delhi: The Income-Tax Department has attached a portion of shares held by V.G. Siddhartha and Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd in IT firm Mindtree over a potential tax demand — a development that could impact the potential stake sale by the Cafe Coffee Day founder in the Bengaluru-based company.
In a BSE filing on Saturday, Mindtree informed that the I-T department in Bengaluru issued a "provisional attachment u/s 281B of Income Tax or prohibitory orders Act, 1961 for tax demand likely to be raised by the I-T Department on.
At the end of December 2018 quarter, Siddhartha held 54.69 lakh shares (3.3% stake) in Mindtree, while Coffee Day Enterprises Ltd had more than 1.74 crore shares (10.63% stake). Another entity, Coffee Day Trading Ltd holds over 1.05 crore shares (6.45%). Mindtree's promoters, which include Subroto Bagchi, Krishnakumar Natarajan, N.S.
Both Siddhartha and Mindtree founders have not made any specific comments on the issue so far.
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