Revenue Department has identified 931 cases of fraudulent Goods and Services Tax refund claims through Data Analytics. The Department has tasked the GST Data Analytics Wing to scrutinize all the pending refund claims filed all over the country in the past. 

Refunds of over 28 thousand crore rupees have been filed by over 27 thousand taxpayers so far in the current year. Such identified taxpayers who have purchased goods from tax evading non-filers would face verification and scrutiny. It is being weekly reviewed and monitored by the Revenue Secretary Dr. Ajay Bhushan Pandey.

Department has booked 6,641 cases involving 7,164 entities till November last year and have recovered around 1,057 crore rupees. The maximum number of GST frauds cases has been booked in Kolkata zone followed by Delhi and Jaipur.