Taxi operators issued notices for non-registration under GST

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PANJIM: In a bid to bring the taxi operators under tax net, the Commercial Taxes Department has issued notices to nearly 250 tourist taxi owners for failing to obtain GST registration. The notices were primarily directed at owners with a fleet of more than 10 taxis.

These taxi owners have been asked to submit details of cars, financial statement or financial accounts from 2017-18 to 2023-24, sales and purchase register, copies of sales bills/invoices, bank statement for all savings and current accounts and copies of contract and/or agreements pertaining to their business and copies of income tax return filed.

They have been asked to submit the required information within the stipulated time frame failing which necessary enforcement actions as mandated under the GST law will be exercised.

According to the Commercial Taxes Department, those with more than 10 taxis have not obtained registration under the GST law for the business they carried on, even though they were liable for the same. They have evaded tax by not discharging the liability to pay tax under the GST law. By this act of failure to take registration under GST law and by suppression of outward taxable supplies by them have violated the provisions of Section 122 of GST law, which entails penalty and payment of due taxes under GST law, stated the notice.