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
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
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 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
GST Odisha enforcement wing busts ITC fraud of Rs 311 croreAs per the Commissionerate of CT&GST, Odisha, 12 teams consisting of 48 officers of the State GST Enforcement Wing (assisted by 35 Police o...
07 Jul, 2022, 06.11 PM IST
GST officers unearth over Rs 35,000 crore fraud in 2020-21, arrest 426 peopleDuring 2020-21 (April 2020 to March 2021), 426 persons, including 14 professionals such as CAs, lawyers and directors, were arrested.
15 Jul, 2021, 09.54 AM IST
GST officers arrest one for Rs 39 crore ITC fraudInvestigation revealed that the multilayered network was being operated by one Nihaluddin who has confessed to having created a fake firm i...
02 Mar, 2021, 06.45 PM IST
GST officers arrest one for operating 46 fake firms, passing on ITC worth Rs 82.23 croreThe officers of Central Goods and Services Tax (CGST) Commissionerate, Delhi East unearthed a multi-layered network of fictitious firms bei...
18 Jan, 2021, 05.35 PM IST
GST authorities arrest 215 persons in fake invoice cases, recover over Rs 700 crore in 2 monthsThose arrested by the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) and the CGST Commissionerates include six Chartered Accountants and on...
10 Jan, 2021, 05.23 PM IST
GST officers arrest alleged mastermind for creating 115 fake firms to avail Rs 50 crore ITCSources said the GST investigation arm DGGI has written to the ICAI to take obligatory action for alleged professional misconduct by the th...
25 Nov, 2020, 09.16 PM IST
GST officials bust racket for availing Rs 50 cr illegal input tax credit; 1 arrestedPrince Manish Kumar Khatri, a third-year student and a partner of a CA firm in Ahmedabad, allegedly registered fake firms that were used to...
25 Oct, 2020, 09.36 PM IST
GST officials bust racket for availing Rs 50 cr illegal ITC; 1 arrestedPrince Manish Kumar Khatri, a third-year student and a partner of a CA firm in Ahmedabad, allegedly registered fake firms that were used to...
23 Oct, 2020, 05.29 PM IST
One arrested in connection with fake GST invoices worth Rs 72 croreFake e-way bills were generated for several vehicle numbers, bogus invoices were received by the accused from the operator of fake firms fo...
07 Mar, 2020, 10.12 PM IST