New Delhi: The government on Monday said that central goods and services tax (GST) field officers have detected tax evasion of about Rs 7.08 lakh crore in the last five years till 2024-25 fiscal, including input tax credit (ITC) fraud of about Rs 1.79 lakh crore. However, it was found that there was over Rs 2.23 lakh crore of GST evasion in 2024-25 fiscal alone.Informing to Parliament, minister of state for finance Pankaj Chaudhary shared the GST evasion data in the Lok Sabha, saying that a total of Rs 7.08 lakh crore have been detected by field officers in the last five years till 2024-25 fiscal, while in 2024-25 fiscal alone were over Rs 2.23 lakh crore.Chaudhary, however, said that the central government and GSTN are taking various steps to prevent tax evasion, such as digitisation through e-invoicing, GST analytics, highlighting of outliers based on system-flagged mismatches, providing actionable intelligence and selection of returns for scrutiny and selection of taxpayers for audit based on various risk parameters. These measures are helpful in safeguarding the revenue and nabbing the evaders,” he said in a written reply in the Lower House.“Of the 30,056 cases of GST evasion detected in FY’25, more than half or 15,283 cases pertained to ITC fraud, where the evasion was to the tune of Rs 58,772 crore. And in the 2023-24 fiscal, Rs 2.30 lakh crore worth GST evasion was detected by the field officers, involving ITC fraud of Rs 36,374 crore,” the minister said.In FY’23, he said, about Rs 1.32 lakh crore GST evasion was detected, including Rs 24,140 crore of fake ITC claims. “In FY ’22 and FY’21, the GST evasion stood at Rs 73,238 crore and Rs 49,384 crore respectively. This included ITC fraud of Rs 28,022 crore and Rs 31,233 crore respectively,” he added.As per the data, in the last five years, starting 2020-21 to 2024-25, total GST evasion detected by CGST field officers stood at about Rs 7.08 lakh crore in 91,370 cases. “Taxes recovered during the period by way of voluntary deposit stood at over Rs 1.29 lakh crore. The evasion data includes ITC fraud of about Rs 1.79 lakh crore in 44,938 cases between FY ’21 to FY’ 25,” the data showed.
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