Last week, the Central Board of Indirect
Taxes and Customs issued a warning regarding the issuance of fake GST summons
by fraudsters. Taxpayers have been advised to exercise caution and verify the
authenticity of any communication received from GST authorities.
Fake GST Summon: Why In The
News?
In a statement, the CBIC said
the Directorate General of GST Intelligence (DGGI) has recently noticed that
some individuals with fraudulent intent are creating and sending fake summons
to taxpayers who may or may not be under investigation by the DGGI.
“The fake summons that are being
sent out might look real because they have a Document Identification Number
(DIN), but these DIN numbers are not issued by DGGI in the case of these
entities. To deal with this issue, DGGI has been taking serious steps by
informing and filing complaints with the Police against those involved in
creating and sending fake and fraudulent summons,” an official statement said.
How To Verify GST Summons?
Always verify the authenticity
of a GST summon before responding. Scammers sometimes use fake summons to
defraud taxpayers.
CBIC said that taxpayers can
verify the genuineness of any communication (including summons) from the
department by using the ‘VERIFY CBIC-DIN’ window on the CBIC’s website or the
DIN Utility Search on the online portal of Directorate of Data Management (DDM),
CBIC.
Report Fake Summons
“Individual taxpayers who get
summons from DGGI/CBIC formations that seem suspicious or possibly fake may
immediately report them to the concerned jurisdictional DGGI/ CBIC office also
for verification so that necessary action against those responsible for these
fraudulent activities can be taken,” CBIC’s statement added.
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