VIEW: The fight against GST evasion

The government is finally cracking the whip. Having recognised the scourge of evasion, 2020 ended with a flurry of goods and services tax (GST) enforcement activity. The last few months of the year witnessed the detection of more than 3000 cases–primarily of misuse of input tax credit facilities. The sheer audacity of some of these fraudsters has been staggering with reports of instances of a sing…