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Centre and states agree to streamline GST to plug revenue leakage

Centre and States have come together to take necessary action to streamline the Goods and Services Tax (GST) system and plug revenue leakage. Several measures were discussed in this regard during the Second National GST Conference of the Commissioners of State Tax and Chief Commissioners of Central Tax  in New Delhi  yesterday.
They include curbing fraudulent refund claims, linking foreign exchange remittances with IGST refund, investigation of fraudulent Input Tax Credit (ITC) cases by the IT Department and a single bank account for foreign remittance receipt.

The meeting was chaired by Revenue Secretary Dr Ajay Bhushan Pandey. It decided to constitute a Committee of Centre and State officers to examine and implement quick measures to curb fraudulent refund claims.
The committee will come out with detailed Standard Operating Procedure within a week, which may be implemented across the country by January end. AIR correspondent reports that A Memorandum of Understanding will  be signed among the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT), the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) and the GST Network to exchange data through application program interface, from CBDT to GSTN and CBIC and vice-versa.

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