The income tax department has decided to go through the books of top bank defaulters with a toothcomb, to check whether tax deducted at source (TDS) on the salaries of their employees have been deposited by these companies. The Vijay Mallya-promoted Kingfisher Airlines, in several cases, had deducted TDS from employees’ salaries, but did not deposit it with the government. “We are going to examine the accounts to understand if there hasbeenanysuchdiscrepancies with other defaulters as well,” a senior government official told HT on the condition of anonymity. In 2014, tax authorities filed a case in the special economic offences court in Bangalore against the now defunct Kingfisher Airlines for failing to deposit TDS worth around Rs.260 crore from 2009-2011. “It is a criminal offence to deduct TDS and not deposit it with the government. So we filed a case against Kingfisher. We were the first agency to get a summon out for Mallya,” said the source quoted above. The Income Tax