CGST Chandigarh commissionerate’s crackdown on GST violators

CHANDIGARH: The central GST department on Friday conducted “Searches and Survey” at several places in Chandigarh and found major irregularities and evasion of tax by three institutions. The institutions that have been found evasing tax include Chanakya IAS academy, Valeur HR Chandigarh and Trig Detective Chandigarh.
The “Surveys” were conducted by CGST commissionerate Chandigargh under their revenue augmentation drive.According to sources in Central GST, during the survey the officials found around Rs 1 crore tax theft by Chanakya academy that has not filed returns for the past around one and a half years. During the survey, it was also found that the academy was collecting the GST in the fees but had filed returns with the department. Their registration was also cancelled by the department around one month back.
Similarly, during the survey, the CGST officials also found that Chandigarh based company IT company, Valeur HR has also not filed returns under the prescribed rules for the past one year. A total of Rs 1 crore theft has been estimated by the department by the company.
In another search and survey carried by the department in the premises of another city based company, Trig Detectives, the department has assessed the evasion of Rs 1 crore tax by the institution.The survey was continue till the filling of the report.
The officials of the department has also recovered the related documents from these three institutions.
These surveys and searches has been conducted by the CGST commissionerate Chandigarh on the special directions of the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs under their revenue augmentation drive. Sources also confirmed that more such raids would be conducted in Chandigarh and Jalandhar area by the Chandigarh commissionerate. Senior officers of the commissionerate were involved during the survey.