Recovery of evaded indirect taxes shoots up in FY19: Finance Ministry

09 Jan 2019 Evaluate

The Finance Ministry has stated that the recovery of evaded indirect taxes shot up in ongoing financial year (FY19), after a low in FY18, the year when the goods and services tax (GST) was implemented. Recovery as a percentage of the evaded taxes dropped from 26% in FY17 to 14% in FY18. Then, it went up to 29% in the first nine months (April to December) of FY19.

Though, the evasion is slated to grow more than twofold in two years, and about 50% in one year of GST implementation. It rose from Rs 23,619 crore in FY17 to Rs 48,555 in First nine months of FY19. The evaded amount of Central GST (CGST) detected is about Rs 15,278 crore. While the overall recovery amounts to Rs 13,908 crore, recovery under the CGST adds up to nearly Rs 10,000 crore. If the overall recovery rate is about 29%, the figure under CGST is 65%.

Besides, the Finance Ministry has recently stated that in the first nine months (April-December) of current financial year (FY19), the direct tax collections surged by 14.1% to Rs 8.74 lakh crore. During the same period, the refunds amounting to Rs 1.30 lakh crore have also been issued, an increase of 17% from the year-ago period.

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