Input Tax Credit scams continue in GST
One of the popular ways of generating fake invoices is setting up of fake companies to which businesses issue invoices for sales or by issuing invoices to companies within the group or known persons for sales. Issuing invoices allows them to claim input tax credit.
Companies have to file annual returns only by June 30, 2019 which then gets extended to November every year and these are likely to be taken up for scrutiny only by 2020 or 2021.
By then, many of these companies would have shut down or vanished.
We must suggest a way to the Govt because so far it seems to be struggling more