In the Second week after the launch of the Central and state tax administration’s door-to-door drive against fake and suspicious Goods and Service Tax Identification Numbers (GSTINs) registrations, the Excise and Taxation Department has found around 23,000 local dealers defaulting in filing their GST returns.
The department found five GSTINs with addresses where businesses were no longer being carried out. Department officials visited 84 business premises in Amritsar, two in Tarn Taran, 11 in Gurdaspur and 19 in Pathankot. The inspection was based on the four parameters provided by the centralised network of the GST. The Excise and Taxation Department conducted the door-to-door search and inspection of the business premises of GSTIN holders. The department scrutinised where there is any mismatch in filing GST returns which was of more than Rs 25 lakh. Transaction cancelled due to fraudulent reasons; goods purchased from taxpayers whose transactions were cancelled and their value was more than 75 per cent; a list of GSTIN holders and their sale/purchase status shown in multiple lists, these were the other parameters for the search.
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