Anti-profiteering body turns heat on e-tailers, seeks a pan-Indian audit

The development comes after NAA discovered that Flipkart alone had 7,500 cases of overcharging GST on account of change in rate between placing an order and delivery

Dilasha Seth  |  New Delhi 

The National Anti-profiteering Authority (NAA) under the goods and services tax (GST) has stepped up pressure for a pan-Indian audit of the e-commerce industry on the basis of an order linked to Flipkart.

NAA Chairman B N Sharma has written to his indirect tax department counterpart for an industry-wide audit after the director general (audit) turned down a request for investigating e-commerce firms. The Flipkart case pertains to profiteering arising from a difference in the GST rate between placing an order and the delivery of the ...

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First Published: Wed, August 08 2018. 01:30 IST