GST authorities have unearthed over Rs 31,000 crore of tax fraud committed by misuse of ITC provision under the GST regime during the financial year 2020-21 and booked more than 7,200 cases involving fake ITC.
Evasion may be committed intentionally and at times non-payment of tax may happen due to human error. However, no evasion of tax has been reported due to failure in the CBIC back-end system.
The gross GST revenue collected in the month of July 2021 is Rs. 1,16,393 crore of which CGST is Rs. 22,197 crores, SGST is Rs. 28,541 crores, IGST is Rs. 57,864 crore and Cess is Rs. 7,790 crores (including Rs. 815 crores collected on import of goods).
Starting 1st August 2021, taxpayers will not be required to get their annual accounts audited by a CA/CMA for furnishing an audited reconciliation statement in Form GSTR-9C.
CBIC has issued the Central Goods and Services Tax (Sixth Amendment) Rules, 2021 under which, amendments have been made under rule 80 relating to Annual Return, instructions related to the filing of GSTR-9 and Form GSTR-9C.
The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs, via Notification No. 31/2021 - Central Tax has exempted taxpayers having an aggregate turnover of Rs. 2 crores from the requirement of filing an annual return for FY 2020-21.
A functionality to check status of bank account details update for the taxpayers who have taken new registration at GST Portal but have not yet furnished the same, has been introduced, in view of Rule 10A of the CGST Rules 2017.
The taxpayers can now see the exact Annual Aggregate Turnover for the previous FY, instead of just the two slabs of Above or Upto Rs. 5 Cr. Taxpayers can also see the AATO of the current FY based on the returns filed to date.
GoI has awarded Appreciation Certificates, on the eve of completion of 4 years of GST, to 54,439 taxpayers who have made substantial contribution in payment of GST and filed their returns in a timely manner.
The Government had issued notifications under Section 168A of the CGST Act, 2017, wherein the time limit for completion of various actions, by any authority or by any person, under the CGST Act, which falls during the specified period, had been extended.