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.
It had come to the notice of the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting that a large number of advertisements on Online Gaming, Fantasy Sports, etc have been appearing on television.
Pension Adalat is to be held on 15th of December, 2020 through Video Conferencing. A notice in advance intimating the time and link for Video Conferencing for the Adalat would be sent to all the stake holders viz. HoD, DDO, PAO, officials of concerned Banks for their participation and the concerned Pensioners, if they so desire to participate.
The CBIC notified the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for verification of taxpayers granted deemed registration. From August 21, 2020, Rule 9 of the CGST Rules, 2017 provide that in cases where Aadhaar authentication has either not been opted for by the applicant or where such authentication has failed, the proper officer has to mandatorily initiate […]
