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November 2018
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Tax
(The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions)
The investigation arm of the Finance Ministry
has detected tax evasion worth Rs 29,088 crore in 1,835 cases during
April-October period of the current financial year, a senior official said
Wednesday. Of this, the Directorate General of GSTIntelligence (DGGI), which is
enforcement agency for checking indirect tax evasion, has detected evasion of
goods and services tax (GST) worth Rs 4,562 crore in 571 cases. However, the
bulk of the evasion was detected in case of service tax. The total number of
cases where service tax was evaded stood at 1,145 involving Rs 22,973 crore.
In case of central excise duty, the DGGI
detected 119 cases where tax evaded was worth Rs 1,553 crore. "DGGI
officers have detected total indirect tax evasion of Rs 29,088 crore during
April-October," the official told PTI. He further said that the total
amount of detection was likely to be more as the data does not include
detection by field offices of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and
Customs(CBIC)
On recovery of evaded taxes, the official
said that a total amount of Rs 5,427 crore was realised during the seven-month
period till October. These, he added, includes recovery from previous cases and
those detected during the current financial year. Of the total recovery, Rs
3,124 crore was from GST evaders, followed by Rs 2,174 crore in case of service
tax, and Rs 128 crore from those who had evaded central excise. The larger
chunk of recovery during April-October in GST, the official said, can be
attributed to the decision of the CBIC to tighten on evaders. With a view to
focus on checking evasion, the apex indirect tax body had in September set up
the Office of Commissioner GST (Investigation), headed by Neeraj Prasad.
Last month, the Finance Ministry had extended
the informant reward scheme of central excise and service tax to GST. The
scheme was modified to include officers of other government agencies like
police, BSF, CISF and coast guard. As per the reward scheme, informers and
government servants were eligible for reward up to 20 per cent of the net
sale-proceeds of the contraband goods seized and/or amount of duty/ service tax
evaded plus amount of penalty levied and recovered. With respect to cases of
detection of drawback frauds or abuse of duty exemption schemes under various
Export Promotion Schemes, the informers are eligible for reward up to 20 per
cent of recovery of drawback claimed fraudulently and/or recovery of duties
evaded
GST, which subsumed 17 local taxes like
excise and service tax, was rolled out on July 1, 2017. In the run up to launch
of the new indirect tax regime GST, the ministry had renamed the Directorate
General 11/21/2018 Rs 29,088 cr indirect tax evasion detected during April-Oct
- of Central Excise Intelligence (DGCEI), mandated to check service tax and
central excise duty evasion, as DGGGI.The
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