LUDHIANA: In the biggest crackdown after the implementation of intrastate e-way bill in Punjab, the investigation wing of the state taxation department has impounded 23 vehicles of scrap and finished goods of
iron and steel.
It was a 24-hour operation that ended Friday afternoon.
The department has initiated the process of imposing tax and penalty of Rs 28 lakh on the tax dodgers. Of the vehicles impounded, nine of finished iron goods were going from Mandi Gobindgarh to other cities and 14 of iron scrap were going towards Mandi Gobindgarh. The vehicles have been kept at the investigation wing’s headquarters in Dugri.
Different teams of the department, led by joint director of investigation wing HPS Ghotra, conducted surprise checks at several places, including Ludhiana-Khanna road and Machhiwara-Ludhiana road. Special teams of officers from Ludhiana,
Jalandhar and Hoshiarpur conducted the operation, which started on
Thursday afternoon.
Ghotra said, “This is the biggest operation in the state to check GST violation. We have impounded 23 vehicles of scrap and finished goods worth Rs 78 lakh that were without the mandatory e-way bill. The process of imposing tax and penalty has been initiated. We are conducting investigation and it is likely that the figure of tax evasion may go up in the coming days. We will conduct special campaigns to check tax evasion in plywood, marble, iron and steel, among others.”
Excise and taxation officers Maj
Manmohan Singh, Inderjit Nagpal, Gulshan Huria, Pawan Umar, Devinder Pannu and Sandeep Sharma were part of the teams that executed this operation. Assistant commissioner of state taxes Magnesh Sethi impounded five of the 23 vehicles.
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