MUMBAI: Owners of roadside eateries in and around Mumbai have declared about Rs 50 crore in cash and properties under the government’s Income Declaration Scheme (IDS), a development that comes about a week after the Income Tax Department conducted raids on such premises across the country.The eatery owners will have to pay tax of Rs 22.5 crore on this previously unaccounted income , people aware of the matter said.In the past two weeks the Income Tax Department raided about 200 eateries, including a well-known vada pav centre in Thane, a dosa centre in Ghatkopar, a sandwich centre in Andheri and a jalebiwallah in south Mumbai.“The owner of a juice centre in Ghatkopar has declared about Rs 5 crore in cash and property under the IDS. Some other roadside eatery owners too declared Rs 25 lakh-Rs 2 crore,” said one of the persons, who did not wish to be identified.About Rs 40,000 crore had been declared under the black money scheme by Thursday evening, the person said. Of this, about Rs 5,000 crore was declared in Mumbai, Thane and New Mumbai.ET could not independently verify the figures since the government has yet to officially announce the figures.One of the persons who declared income under the scheme said on condition of anonymity, “The income tax officials told us that we must declare our assets under IDS or they would come again and raid our shop. We had asked our tax advisor to help us with the problem,” said the person, who is a co-owner of an eatery.A lawyer said declaration of income under the scheme could lead to harassment, the government’s assurances to the contrary notwithstanding.“One of my clients wanted to declare about Rs 3.5 crore but I strongly advised against it, as it could lead to harassment in future. His son is about to get married, so I advised the client to hold a grand marriage in Turkey or somewhere and blow away all the money instead,” said the lawyer, who did not wish to be named.Some of the high-net-worth individuals who wanted to declare their wealth were unable to do so since they held properties, their tax advisers said.“You can’t expect people to sell properties worth millions in few months, and many of these people now don’t have money to pay 45% on the value of the property,” a tax adviser said, requesting not to be named.The four-month window to disclose income under the scheme was due to close on Friday and many expected that there could be some last-minute declarations. The government could announce the total declarations and the tax collected on October 2, the people cited earlier said.