In the last five years (till 2024-25 fiscal), the central GST field officers have detected tax evasion of about Rs 7.08 lakh crore. This included input tax credit fraud of about Rs 1.79 lakh crore, the parliament was informed on Monday.
According to the data shared by Minister of State for Finance (MoS) Pankaj Chaudhary in the Lok Sabha, in 2024-25 fiscal alone, over Rs 2.23 lakh crore of Goods and Services Tax (GST) evasion was detected by CGST field officers.
In the last five years, total GST evasion detected by CGST field officers stood at about Rs 7.08 lakh crore in 91,370 cases. While the taxes recovered during the period by way of voluntary deposit stood at over Rs 1.29 lakh crore.
The evasion data includes ITC fraud of about Rs 1.79 lakh crore in 44,938 cases between FY’21 to FY’25.
In FY’22 and FY’21, GST evasion stood at Rs 73,238 crore and Rs 49,384 crore, respectively. This included ITC fraud of Rs 28,022 crore and Rs 31,233 crore, respectively.
Further in the 2023-24 fiscal, Rs 2.30 lakh crore worth GST evasion was detected by CGST field officers, involving ITC fraud of Rs 36,374 crore.
In FY’23, about Rs 1.32 lakh crore GST evasion was detected, including Rs 24,140 crore of fake ITC claims, the MoS told.
Of the 30,056 cases of GST evasion detected in FY’25, more than half or 15,283 cases pertained to ITC fraud, where the evasion was to the tune of Rs 58,772 crore.
MoS Chaudhary also told the Parliament that the central government and GSTN are taking various steps to prevent tax evasion, such as digitization through E-invoicing, GST analytics, highlighting of outliers based on system-flagged mismatches, providing actionable intelligence and selection of returns for scrutiny and selection of taxpayers for audit based on various risk parameters.