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Bangalore DGCEI detects service tax evasion of Rs 2263 Cr; recovers Rs 55 Cr last calendar year

By TIOL News Service

BANGALORE, JAN 05, 2007 : THE Directorate General of Central Excise Intelligence is a super sleuth so far as booking of service tax and central excise cases go. It is parallel to another super sleuth in the CBEC - the DRI. It has many zonal offices headed by the ADGs. One such office is in Bangalore also. And it has in recent times emerged as a pro-active preventive outfit and its results are indeed impressive. In terms of its performance and All-India ramifications cases, it can match the best in the anti-evasion community. At the risk of stating the obvious, it has surpassed all previous records of its own.

Keeping pace with the radical change in the revenue basket, it had identified service tax as a mainstay of its focus, and the yeilds have justified the efforts of the officers put in. As compared to 126 service tax cases, involving a total revenue of Rs 171 Cr, it detected evasion of Rs 2263 Cr which is 1097% as compared to last year. If Netizens recall the lottery case, this alone catapulted the detection figure by more than Rs 2000 Crore. Although a legal battle is on between the lotter service providers but it is heavily poised in favour of the Revenue. In terms of recovery, it has also recovered Rs 55 Crore which is more than four times of the recovery made last fiscal.

On service tax front, it booked several cases, including a few mega software companies. However, the ADG, Mr Somesh Arora, has stated in an official release that he preferred to focus more on Business Auxiliary Service, Management Consultancy Service, Banking & Financial Service and Membership of clubs / Association Service.

Given that no preventive agency can outsmart tax evaders only on the basis of internal collection of intelligence inputs, it rightly reposed faith in the large number of informers. To keep them in humour and command their trust and confidence, it also cut the red tapism and distributed as much as about Rs 30 lakhs as rewards to them.

On the Central Excise front, the last calendar year was equally impressive. It detected evasion to the extent of Rs. 21 Crores in 18 cases (Previous year Rs. 19.61 Crores in 18 cases). It targeted evasion prone commodities such as iron and steel, plywood, garment finishing equipment and gutkha for evasion of Central Excise duty.


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