Excise dept yet to get FIR lodged in ₹70-crore fake GST bill scam

The excise and taxation department is yet to get FIR registered against the five bogus dealers in the ₹70-crore fake GST bill racket. the department has not even recommended to the police the registration of an FIR in one of the five cases, said a senior UT administration official. The directions for the registration of FIR were issued on August 9. The five bogus firms issued fake bills without any other company either purchasing or providing any goods or services from/to them. Bills bought by these companies, mostly situated in neighbouring states of Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Delhi, were then used to claim input
tax credit (ITC) from the government. Assistant excise and taxation commissioner RK Chaudhary said, “We are following up the matter with the police, and we have been assured that FIR will be registered within a week. We have already submitted the papers.” “We have issued notices for the imposition of penalties on all the defaulting firms. The penalty is equivalent to the tax demand generated,” said Chaudhary. Jaspal Singh Bhullar, SHO police station, Sector 17, said, “We have not received any complaint from the excise and taxation department for registration of FIR against Hotel Turquoise.”

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