GST Raids

A special drive starting May 16 to weed out bogus GST invoices

The state GST department has conducted raids in 71 districts of Uttar Pradesh in two days

The state GST department has taken action in various places in Uttar Pradesh including Noida on the complaint of loss of revenue by tax evasion

Poll-bound Padampur in Odisha saw back-to-back raids by the Income Tax and GST departments on Monday just a week ahead of the December 5 assembly by-election. The IT department raided the Padampur rown residences of three businessmen known to be close to the ruling BJD, while the GST department of the state government cracked down on on BJP-supported traders. A 12-hour bandh has been called on Tuesday by the local traders against the GST crackdown on traders at Padampur, Paikmal and Jharabandha towns. One of those whose premises was raided by the GST department is Sunil Agarwal, the president of Padampur town unit of BJP. The bandh will be held by the local traders from 6 am to 6 pm, Padampur Banika Sangha president Pratap Mishra said. All shops and business establishments will be closed during the duration of the bandh. Government and private offices, schools and educational are, however, exempted from the purview of the bandh, he said. The IT raids were conducted in the houses

According to the Vadodara-I CGST commissionerate, an industrialist based out of Kapadwanj was arrested for faking GST invoices in order to avail input tax credit illegally

Officials from the departments of goods and services tax (GST) and central excise jointly conducted searches on around 200 angadias across this city and seized around 125 packets of diamond, gold jewellery and cash worth Rs 815 million on Thursday.Angadias act as couriers in the diamond trade. They receive packets from clients, in this case, diamond processors/sellers and jewellery manufacturers/traders in Mumbai, to deliver to other clients in Surat and other places in Gujarat, and so on. Their clients in Mumbai and Surat transact business over telephone. Thereafter, the angadias take charge of delivering the sealed packets of diamond, gold and jewellery between these places. "We had information on human carriers carrying some parcels containing gold bars, jewellery, diamond and cash coming in. We verified the information and started acting on it. We found around 80 people/carriers carrying cash and valuables, which they should not have carried without paying duty, and we ...