GST officials bust racket for availing Rs 50 cr illegal input tax credit; 1 arrested

Busting an unlawful enter tax credit (ITC) racket, GST officers have arrested a wannabe chartered accountant for alleged involvement in passing on ITC of approximately Rs 50 crore via an internet of a hundred and fifteen faux companies, a supply stated on Friday.
Prince Manish Kumar Khatri, a third-yr scholar and a associate of a CA company in Ahmedabad, allegedly registered faux companies that had been used to keep away from paying Goods and Services Tax (GST) via way of means of displaying payments generated via way of means of them as ITC.
In all, ITC of Rs 50.24 crore changed into wrongfully exceeded on, the supply stated.
The supply stated Khatri is allegedly the important thing individual worried in registration of a hundred and fifteen non-existent companies and submitting of GST returns of such faux companies, hence passing on ineligible ITC for incorrect availment and usage for GST payment.
These faux companies are unfold over nine GST Commissionerates and the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has detected the fraud with the assist of statistics analytics.
Out of those a hundred and fifteen faux devices, forty nine fall beneathneath Ahmedabad North Commissionerate; 27 beneathneath Vadodara-II Commissionerate; 15 beneathneath Bhiwandi Commissionerate; 12 beneathneath Gandhinagar Commissionerate.
Besides, five devices fall beneathneath Ahmedabad South Commissionerate; three beneathneath Jodhpur Commissionerate; 2 beneathneath Vadodara-I Commissionerate; 1 beneathneath Thane Rural Commissionerate and 1 unit beneathneath Bhavnagar Commissionerate.
“Now using Aadhaar in GST registration will carry higher manipulate over such unscrupulous specialists who attempt to create bogus/faux companies for GST evasion via way of means of fraudulent availment and passing on of ITC,” the supply stated.
The supply similarly stated regulation is being similarly tightened to have higher manipulate on such malpractices.
Moreover, the authorities is thinking about setting such doubtful companies beneathneath chance class like in case of export companies, and might block their refunds, except taking different suitable criminal actions, if discovered worried in deceitful practices.

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