The scourge of evasion of GST

There is a flurry of enforcement activity going on in GST commissionerates all across the country. Press notes announcing the detection of evasion of tax from Rs 392 crore to a mind-boggling Rs 1,278 crore have been issued by the government in the last few days. All the press notes have a common thread running through them -- inadmissible credit being availed by companies on the basis of bogus inv…