While taking action against two Gurugram-based private firms for their involvement in the huge bogus transactions under the VAT regime, the Haryana Government has got an FIR registered against the firms and also constituted a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the matter.
These firms included Vipin Enterprises, Gurugram and Uma Traders, Gurugram (east), said a spokesman of Excise and Taxation Department.
He said that while Vipin Enterprises was found claiming input tax credit (ITC) of VAT to the tune of over Rs41.78 crore and of Central Excise to the tune of over Rs7.37 crore totaling to over Rs49.16 crore, Uma Traders (east) was found claiming ITC in VAT to the tune of over Rs42.38 crore and in Central Excise to the tune of over Rs8.05 crore totaling to over Rs50.43 crore through TRAN-1 furnished in the month of September 2017 under the GST regime.
The spokesman further said that the Vipin Enterprises was found making fraudulent claims of ITC on intra-state purchases in a web of operations with many other firms. The enterprise was not traceable at given address and proprietor of the firm Vijay could also not be traced.
An effort was made to contact the said proprietor at the given mobile number but on True Caller Mobile App, the said phone number of Vodafone Telecom Operator is shown to belong to another person, he said. The original record of the registration of the firm is not traceable in the Gurugram office, he said. He said that Uma Traders was registered under the VAT Act with liability to pay tax with effect from September 25, 2014. It had filed the first, second and third quarterly return for the 2015-16 and declared a turnover of over Rs3.03 crore, nil and over Rs43.92 crore respectively.
No return for the assessment year 2016-17 and first quarter of assessment year 2017-18 has been filed. The dealer neither paid any tax in all three quarters nor did he pay tax on value enhancement that is VAT. Moreover, in first quarter, value enhancement as shown through sales are very high as compared to the purchases made which is not possible in normal business practice, the spokesman said.