GST officers detect Rs 15,851 cr fraudulent ITC claims in April-June, total 3,558 fake firms uncoveredGST officers uncovered a significant surge in fake input tax credit (ITC) claims, reaching Rs 15,851 crore in the first quarter of FY26, a ...
20 Jul, 2025, 11.01 AM IST
Central, state GST officers detect 25,009 fake firms fraudulently passing Rs 61,545 cr ITC in FY25Central and state GST officers uncovered 25,009 fake firms involved in fraudulently passing input tax credit (ITC) worth Rs 61,545 crore du...
21 Apr, 2025, 03.36 PM IST
Fake ITC claims detection by central GST officers up 51 pc at Rs 36,374 cr in FY24Detection of fake input tax credit (ITC) claims by central GST officers rose 51% to Rs 36,374 crore in 2023-24, Parliament was informed. In...
29 Jul, 2024, 02.45 PM IST
Meerut CGST busted a Rs 1,000 crore ITC fraud syndicateTax officials have uncovered a syndicate that fraudulently claimed Input Tax Credit of over Rs 1,000 crore through 232 fake firms. The inve...
07 Mar, 2024, 08.20 PM IST
Fake ITC Claim of Rs 180 Crore: Karnataka’s GST authorities detect 100 bogus firms, arrest mastermindKarnataka's Commercial Taxes Department, in collaboration with Kerala State GST authorities, has arrested Mohammed Siddiq for his role as a...
18 Jan, 2024, 05.37 PM IST
GST officers detect over 29,000 bogus firms involved in fake ITC claims of Rs 44,000 crTo curb fraud in Goods and Services Tax (GST) and increase compliance, the GST formations, under the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Cu...
07 Jan, 2024, 08.28 PM IST
Increased monthly GST collections mainly on account of higher compliance: CBIC chiefThe Goods and Services Tax (GST) collection was Rs 1.87 lakh crore in April and in the first four months of the current fiscal, the collect...
28 Sep, 2023, 04.11 PM IST
Over 12k fake entities in GST; CBIC plans biometric authentication, tighter return filingThe Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) in India is planning to introduce biometric authentication and geo-tagging in an eff...
02 Jul, 2023, 02.29 PM IST
GST officers bust 304 syndicates involving Rs 25,000 crore fake ITC claimsIn an ongoing drive against bogus firms, GST officers have busted 304 syndicates involving 9,000 fake GST identification numbers (GSTINs) a...
01 Jul, 2023, 05.57 PM IST
GST Council likely to vet CBIC's plan for additional validations in return filing to check evasionThe CBIC last week introduced validation and risk rating for GST registrations, as it looks to curb fake entities issuing fake bills just t...
18 Jun, 2023, 01.31 PM IST
Taxmen to conduct two-month special drive to weed out fake GST registrations, identify mastermindsThis menace of fake registrations and issuance of bogus invoices for passing fake ITC has become a serious problem, wherein fraudulent peop...
05 May, 2023, 07.27 PM IST
Data analytics to curb fake input tax credit claimsRevenue secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey is reviewing the matter of fraud input tax credit (ITC) claims on a weekly basis, a government offici...
13 Jan, 2020, 11.28 PM IST
PMO asks states to curb fake ITC claimsThe Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on Friday took stock of the issues impacting revenue collection and asked states for increasing complianc...
12 Oct, 2019, 07.43 AM IST
Tax sleuths uncover Rs 650 crore fake invoice scam in MaharashtraAnand Mangal was arrested and sent to judicial custody until March 8 by a local court in Panvel.
25 Feb, 2019, 07.16 AM IST
Tax officials may examine high usage of ITC to set off GST liabilityThe issue of high input tax credit was flagged at the meeting of the Group of Ministers.
27 Jan, 2019, 01.04 PM IST
ITC logo, chairman's name used in fake websiteThe fake website has also used the address of the company's headquarters at J L Nehru Road in the city, as its contact details.
07 Dec, 2018, 04.07 PM IST
Dealers in Bengaluru reverse Rs 17 cr claims made on fake GST invoicesThe sustained drive by the Commercial Taxes department against fake ITC claims and a spate of recent arrests have created fear in errant bu...
17 Oct, 2018, 08.07 PM IST