Tax base to be widened with stricter audits: CBIC Chief Vivek Johri

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Feb 03, 2023

After record goods and services tax (GST) collection, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) is preparing a roadmap to widen the tax base with stricter audits and scrutiny.

There is much scope to widen the tax base and check tax evasion with active use of digital forensic tools and use of data integration and artificial intelligence, CBIC chairman Vivek Johri said in a post-budget interaction with ET.

So far, the board has detected a revenue shortfall of ?22,000 crore from the tax audits of 51,000 GST return filings and ?2,200 crore from tax scrutiny of 31,000 GST returns. "We are looking at actively using audits and scrutiny for improving compliances. We have been able to achieve a big breakthrough in return filing percentage but it is not enough," Johri said. "We also need to look at the quality of data that the values taxpayers are putting in the return."

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