CBI arrests state GST officer in Kathua for demanding, accepting bribe

 









Officials in the agency said, the CBI laid a trap and caught the tax officer red-handed while demanding and accepting a bribe of Rs 13,000 from the complainant. Following the arrest, searches were conducted at the office and residential premises of the accused at Kathua, Jammu and Samba in J&K.

“A case was registered on a complaint against the accused person on allegations of demanding bribes. It was alleged that the complainant had filed applications with State GST office, Circle Kathua for claiming refund of excess balance in electronic cash ledger and for taking registration under GST for his new firm,” said CBI spokesperson RC Joshi.c

It was further alleged by the complainant that the officer demanded a bribe of Rs.15,000 from the complainant for processing his refund claim and the matter of GST registration, Joshi said, adding that later, the bribe was negotiated at Rs 13,000.


A total of 3,147 newly-registered taxpayers under Tamil Nadu GST Act, 2017, were found to
be non-existent at the declared business premises by Commercial Taxes Department officials. Of these, 1,972 registrations have been cancelled and further action is being taken for the remaining cases. This exercise is carried out every month, according to a policy note tabled at the Assembly on Thursday.

Meanwhile, verification of e-Way bill data and detailed scrutiny of returns filed by taxpayers are being carried out to curb ‘bill trading’ activities. During the year 2021-22, a total of 1,044 bill traders had been identified and action under the TNGST Act is being taken

Moreover, beneficiaries who have availed fake ITC (Input Tax Credit) are being identified and action is being taken by blocking wrongly-availed credit. Such amount is collected along with penalty and interest. Further, in 16 cases, provisional attachment of bank account/property of the taxable person has been ordered by the Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, the policy note said.

Meanwhile, the department will utilise the expertise of National Informatics Centre, Bangalore — which carried out the integration of FASTag with e-Way bill system — to curb ‘bill trading’. Suspected ‘bill traders’ will be identified by using data analytics reports of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) live data, which is available in the e-Way bill portal.

These bill traders generate e-Way bills for huge outward supplies without any actual inward supplies, the department said. In order to expand the scope of checking movement of goods vehicles and ensure tax compliance, the total number of roving squads has been increased from 53 to 100.

No. of e-Way bills generated

(01.04.2021 to 31.03.2022)

Inter-State movement: 2,60,79,161

Intra-State movement: 5,02,12,303

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