IANS | 17 Jun, 2023
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday that the Goods and
Services Tax (GST) registration process may be further strengthened by
using technology to curb the entry of fake entities into the GST
ecosystem.
The minister also called for a nation-wide
campaign to explain the objectives of the special drive to weed out the
fake entities.
Sitharaman was chairing a review meeting of the
ongoing drive against fake billing for GST evasion. The minister was
informed that 11,140 fake registrations have already been detected and
action has been initiated against them.
Sitharaman was also
apprised of the methods being adopted such as identity theft of people,
along with the actions being taken against fake registrations.
She
also took note of the existing measures being undertaken by the Finance
Ministry such as OTP-based verification of Aadhaar and pilot of
biometric-based Aadhaar authentication at the time of registration in
high-risk cases.
Revenue Secretary Sanjay Malhotra and CBIC
Chairman Vivek Johri apprised Sitharaman that Artificial Intelligence
tools are being extensively used to identify the possible fake networks.
