A fake Goods and Services Tax (GST) invoice scam of Rs 14 crore was unearthed by the Central GST commisionerate where the suspects used it for fraudulently claiming input tax credit (ITC).

The scam came to surface during the course of action by the squads of the Central GST where a Chandwad-based firm M/s Gonglu Agro Pvt Ltd had received fake GST invoices worth Rs 5.58 crore.

Later, the Central GST commisionerate found that this firm was also involved in issuance of fake GST invoices. “During investigation we found that this Chandwad-based firm was involved in issuance of fake GST invoices. The firm has issued fake GST invoices of around Rs 70 crore to facilitate passing on bogus ITC of Rs 8.4 crore,” an official from the Central GST department said.

The Central GST department has arrested the managing director of the company, Rahoul Jain, and is investigating the case to find whether other firms are also involved in such practices of providing fake GST invoice to facilitate bogus claims of the ITC.

The Nashik divisional office of the Central GST (erstwhile office of Central excise, service tax and customs) has jurisdiction across five districts — Nashik, Ahmednagar, Dhule, Jalgaon and Nandurbar.
There are over 1.10 lakh businesses registered in the district of which 60,000 businesses are registered with the Nashik divisional office of the state GST, while remaining 53,591 are registered with the divisional office of the Central GST.

The new tax regime GST came into effect from July 1, 2017 replacing the multiple indirect taxes and traders with turnover of below Rs 20 lakh were exempted from GST, while those with annual business turnover up to Rs 1 crore are eligible for composition scheme.

The GST council made several changes in the past following introduction of GST and the exemption limit had was increased from Rs 20 lakh to Rs 40 lakh and only those businesses with turnover of above Rs 40 lakh are under the tax net.

Source: Times-Of-India.

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