DG Vigilance has assisted the Board in ensuring the monitoring of disciplinary matters and in advising it on the suitability of officers at times of promotions, deputations, etc. DG Export Promotion, has been helpful in sorting out the difficulties being faced by genuine exporters.
SEZ Online System has been sharing the details of supplies made by SEZ Units to DTA Units under Bill of Entry with GSTN through ICEGATE since July 2017. ICEGATE has completed its arrangements with GSTN to auto-populate the same in GSTR of DTA Buyer (Importer) for BoE information shared by SEZ Online System.
The GST revenue during December 2020 has been the highest ever since the introduction of GST in 2017 and it is the very first time that tax collection in cash terms has crossed Rs. 1.15 lakh crore.
For a quick recap of the year, our commitment to the trade and industry to move to a ‘Faceless. Paperless. Contactless’ environment, even before the advent of Covid- 19. had given us a head start.
Strengthening infrastructure has been an area of priority of the Board. Recently, in the backdrop of budgetary constraints, a review was conducted by the Board of the infrastructure projects for which funds have been sanctioned or revalidated in the current Financial Year.
On review of the verification requests in terms of rule 6 of CAROTAR 2020, being received by the FTA Cell in the Board, it is observed that significant number of such requests have to be returned on account of being deficient, thus leading to delay in verification process and adversely impacting trade facilitation.
It has been instructed that at least 90% of Drawback should be credited within a time period of 3 days. Further, the refund may be deposited into the customer account in T+2 days.
On the anti-evasion front, DGGI formations and the CGST zones have continued their drive against fake invoice usage. They have, so far in the month-long operation. unearthed 4689 fake GSTINs and arrested 141 persons and booked cases involving wrongly availed credit of Rs.13447.95 crore.
Detection of availment and passing of fake ITC to the tune of Rs.154 Crores by issuance of fake invoices to the tune of Rs.1101 Crores by 206 units sprawling all over India—Regarding.
The DGGI has been spear heading the anti-evasion campaign for almost a month now. During this time, the agency along with the GST Zones have booked about 1230 cases, unearthing 3778 fake GSTINs and arresting about 114 fraudsters. The total amount of fake ITC/GST detected stands at Rs. 11,520 crore of which Rs 336.03 crore has already been recovered.
