Pending refunds, investigations, adjudications, litigation together with the variety of frauds and recoveries — these are a few of the particular queries being requested from subject places of work by the headquarters of direct and oblique tax authorities underneath the Ministry of Finance forward of a brainstorming conclave subsequent week. Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will maintain detailed interactions with the oblique tax and direct tax authorities on June 20 and June 23, respectively, to debate a broad vary of points together with refund processing and their rejection tendencies, pending investigations, techniques, and non-processing of returns.
The Central Board of Oblique Taxes and Customs (CBIC) goes to carry a two-day conclave on June 19-20, whereas the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) will host an identical session with its subject officers on June 23.
The Finance Minister is predicted to put particular emphasis on well timed refund processing, particularly in export and SEZ-linked classes, officers mentioned. “Delays past 60 days might be scrutinised, and zones could also be requested to.clarify pendency and rejection tendencies with detailed analytics,” an official mentioned.
The Minister can even evaluation the dwell time of cargo clearance throughout ports and airports. “Excessive pendency in DGGI (Directorate Normal of GST Intelligence) investigations, particularly these pending over 180 days, is probably going to attract important consideration,” the official mentioned.
On the direct tax entrance, delays in issuing refunds, techniques accountability and litigation administration together with age-wise pendency of appeals might be reviewed by the Minister to push for sooner disposal of legacy instances to cut back litigation burden, the official mentioned.
In a collection of missives despatched to the sector officers this week, the CBIC and CBDT have sought detailed info concerning the pendency claims, pending refunds, frauds, investigations and the instances caught in litigation. Officers mentioned information is being collated forward of the assembly to have a threadbare dialogue on all the problems affecting taxpayers within the conclave.
In a letter despatched on Friday, seen by The Indian Categorical, the Items and Providers Tax (GST) subject officers have been requested to offer particulars about instances the place numerous faux companies are being managed or operated by one mastermind. “The registration information of those teams of pretend companies could also be examined on precedence intimately (in a single or two massive instances) as to how the mastermind was in a position to acquire GST registration with out being caught through the registration course of. This can allow us to plug loopholes within the registration system and attaining the target of constructing the registration course of extra strong, extra easy, fast and automatic whereas stopping faux sellers from getting registration,” the letter acknowledged.
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In one other letter issued on June 12, the GST subject places of work have been requested to offer particulars concerning the variety of investigations accomplished, common time taken for finishing the investigation for the final two monetary years 2023-24 and 2024-25 and the continuing monetary yr of 2025-26. The officers have additionally been requested to offer details about the entire variety of pending investigations for greater than two years, the explanations for pendency of such instances. They’ve then been requested to provide particulars concerning the variety of investigations pending due to the pendency causes together with particular queries concerning the timeframe of the pending investigations. As an illustration, the officers have been requested to provide the breakup of pending investigations for 1 yr to 2 years.
Particulars have additionally been sought about recoveries made throughout investigation and after adjudication together with pending adjudication particulars, with the sector places of work being requested to provide information for pending adjudication for multiple yr as on Could 31, 2025.
