Taxes collected by Service Providers

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..... Taxes collected by Service Providers - Goods and Services Tax - GST Dated:- 16-3-2018 - News - The Government is aware of instances where taxes are collected by many service providers, hoteliers, traders etc. from the customers but are not deposited in the Government s account. Based on specific intelligence collected, detailed investigations are carried out and the due tax amount is either reco .....

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..... vered or quasi-judicial proceedings are initiated. The details of such losses are as below: Financial Year No. of cases Amount detected (Rs. Crores) 2015-16 1097 1501.49 2016-17 1086 1311.34 2017-18 (till Feb 2018) .....

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..... 743 766.67 Total 2926 3579.5 In order to encourage compliant behavior under GST, the Government has undertaken a massive awareness and educational campaign by regularly issuing advertisements in the media (Print/Voice/Visual) to educate the taxpayers about GST laws and procedures. Further, CBE .....

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..... C has conducted various workshops and town hall meetings to educate the taxpayers in this regard. In addition to this, social media (Twitter) has also been extensively used for disseminating information regarding GST laws, rules and tax rates. The GST Council has constituted a Committee on invoices under the chairmanship of CEO, GSTN to examine the feasibility of generating invoices on the GST .....

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..... portal and to suggest an incentive scheme to encourage the taxpayers to upload their tax paid invoices online. This was stated by Shri Shiv Pratap Shukla, Minister of State for Finance in a written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today. - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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