India, Aug. 6 -- The income tax (I-T) department sent out 44,000 emails and messages to individuals for not filing cryptocurrency transactions in their FY25 returns.

The finance ministry told Parliament that the communication to the defaulters was sent via the Ministry's "non-intrusive usage of data to guide and enable (NUDGE) taxpayers campaign".

". To create awareness among taxpayers regarding the disclosure of VDA and payment of tax, CBDT has recently launched NUDGE.. taxpayers campaign under which 44057 emails and messages have been sent to select taxpayers who had invested and traded in the VDAs but did not report the transactions in Schedule VDA of their. (ITRs)," minister of state (MoS) for finance Pankaj Chaudhary said.

The MoS...