Odisha shocker: Daily wage labourer gets Income Tax notice of Rs 4.31 crore

 








23-year-old Rinku Barik, a daily wage labourer from Odisha, has received a notice from the Income Tax (IT) Department asking him to pay a hefty tax to the tune of crores of rupees. However, Rinku claimed that someone else have committed the tax fraud in his name.


In September 2018, Rinku received a spot summon from the Directorate General of GST Intelligence. In the same year in December, Rinkureceived another notice from the CSGT and Central Excise Superintendent of Nayagarh Range which mentioned that he had available Input Tax Credit (ITC) of around Rs 4.31 crore and evaded tax, as reported by The New Indian Express (TNIE).


Rinku claimed that he had shared his personal documents with some people while he was trying to get a job in a company. He said that those miscreants might have fraudulently used his documents to show him as the owner of a steel company with two addresses - Rourkela and Nayagarh.


In the meantime, Rinku also learnt that a current account was being operated in his name in the Rourkela branch of Urban Cooperative Bank Ltd (UCBL), TNIE report added.
Ganesh, Rinku’s father who is a barber by profession and struggles to even meet the daily needs of the family told TNIE that on March 10, his son had received a notice from the IT department.


After receiving the notice, Rinku replied to the IT department explaining his innocence and that he was fraudulently being involved in the tax evasion. But he received another notice on March 28 which asked him to comply with IT provisions and pay the tax.
The IT department directed Rinku to pay chargeable tax on Rs 13.21 crore which was credited to his UCBL account, fake transactions of Rs 16.16 crore and a purchase transaction of Rs 2.94 crore. All the transactions were done during the during financial year 2017-18, Ganesh told TNIE.


In the meantime, the Sambalpur Cyber Crime & Economic Offences has arrested four persons including two officials of Rourkela UCBL on Sunday on charges of Rs 124 crore GST evasion on Sunday.


The arrested persons have been identified as Akshay Kumar Nayak (55) who was working as the Assistant Manager of UCBL Main Branch in Rourkela, Prasanta Kumar Jena (53) working as senior clerk in the same bank, Subash Chandra Swain (52) from Basanti Colony in Rourkela and Amit Beriwal (42) who is a businessman of Sambalpur. All the four accused were produced in Sambalpur court and have been booked under sections 419, 420, 467 and 120 (B) of the IPC along with section 66(C)/66(D) of IT Act 2008.


The matter came to light after a Sambalpur resident approached the police station alleging that his identity and documents were fraudulently used to commit SGST forgery.


Sources informed that there are nearly 120 fake accounts opened in Rourkela branch of UCBL using various forged documents in order to make GST evasion during 2017-18 and 2018-19 financial years.


Other the other hand, Rinku alleged that the police did not register his complaint while his family is economically instable to hire a lawyer.


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