Meager recovery in GST evasion

New Delhi: In six years since the introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), the government has detected 5,070 fraud cases of GST registration misusing PAN and Aadhaar details of people to claim input tax credit (ITC).

These 5,000-odd cases have led to the detection of Rs27,426 crore of GST evasion. However the recovery has only been worth of Rs922 crore in the past six years. These figures pertain to the period between July 1, 2017 (commencement of GST regime) and June 30, 2023.

Among the states, Maharashtra, Delhi, and Tamil Nadu are the top three in terms of fraud cases of misuse of GST registration with 765, 713, and 632 cases detected, respectively. In Maharashtra, Rs 3,889 crore worth of GST evasion was detected, while only Rs 171 crore was recovered.