Red flag alert for GST frauds

Bengal finance minister Amit Mitra has called for an urgent meeting of the GST Council to discuss ways to crank up faltering collections under the goods and service tax (GST) regime and plug revenue leaks. In a letter written to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Mitra said a business intelligence unit must be set up in every state to detect rampant frauds that are taking place in the syst…