GST evasion of seven.08 lakh crore detected in 5 years, consists of enter tax credit score fraud of 1.79 lakh crore

“Central Goods & Services #Tax (GST) area officers have detected tax evasion of about $7.08 lakh crore within the final 5 years until 2024-25 fiscal, together with enter tax credit score (ITC) fraud of about ₹1.79 lakh crore,” Parliament was knowledgeable on Monday (August 4, 2025).

In 2024-25 fiscal alone, greater than ₹2.23 lakh crore of GST evasion had been detected by CGST area officers, in keeping with the information shared by Minister of State for Finance #Pankaj Chaudhary within the #Lok Sabha.

Of the 30,056 circumstances of GST evasion detected in FY’25, greater than half or 15,283 circumstances pertained to ITC fraud, the place the evasion was to the tune of ₹58,772 crore. In the 2023-24 fiscal, ₹2.30 lakh crore value GST evasion was detected by CGST area officers, involving ITC fraud of ₹36,374 crore.

In FY’23, about ₹1.32 lakh crore GST evasion was detected, together with ₹24,140 crore of pretend ITC claims. In FY’22 and FY’21, GST evasion stood at ₹73,238 crore and ₹49,384 crore respectively. This included ITC fraud of ₹28,022 crore and ₹31,233 crore respectively.

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In the final 5 years (2020-21 to 2024-25), whole GST evasion detected by CGST area officers stood at about ₹7.08 lakh crore in 91,370 circumstances. #Taxes recovered through the interval by the use of voluntary deposit stood at greater than ₹1.29 lakh crore.

The evasion knowledge consists of ITC fraud of about ₹1.79 lakh crore in 44,938 circumstances between FY’21 to FY’25. Mr. Chaudhary stated the Central Government and GSTN are taking varied steps to stop tax evasion, reminiscent of digitisation via E-invoicing, GST analytics, highlighting of outliers based mostly on system-flagged mismatches, offering actionable intelligence and number of returns for scrutiny and number of taxpayers for audit based mostly on varied threat parameters.

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“These measures are helpful in safeguarding the revenue and nabbing the evaders,” Mr. Chaudhary stated in a written reply within the Lower House.

To a query on the precise web Central GST assortment in comparison with the Revised Estimates (RE), Mr. Chaudhary stated web CGST assortment was 96.7% of the RE in 2024-25 fiscal. Net CGST consists of CGST+Integrated GST+compensation cess.

Actual assortment stood at greater than ₹10.26 lakh crore in FY’25, as in opposition to RE of almost ₹10.62 lakh crore. In FY’24, web CGST assortment was greater than ₹9.57 lakh crore or 100.1a% of the RE of greater than ₹9.56 lakh crore.