Letter to BS: Slowdown in tax collection is not because of evasion

Government-owned companies which manufacture a very large amount of goods and services do not evade

This refers to “2 years after roll-out, GST glitches still exist, says CAG report” (July 31). The Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) in his report on GST for 2017-18, which was tabled in the Parliament on Tuesday, pointed out that “the invoice matching system has not kicked-in”. The CAG also said, “Invoice matching is a critical requirement that would yield full benefit of this major tax reform”. The report’s indirect implication that a slowdown in tax collection is because of not matching 100 per cent of invoices, isn’t correct. Such an imputation is based on the presumption that