The Centre will extend it to companies with at least a Rs 100-crore turnover in January and for all companies in April next year for B2B transactions.
The meeting discussed the need for coordinated action to check revenue leakage
A Group of Ministers (GoM) led by Kerala Finance Minister Thomas Isaac will take up the proposal - aimed at checking tax evasion and smuggling - on Friday
DGGI has found alleged evasion of GST collectively worth over Rs 108 crore by two liquor manufacturers in Aurangabad and Nanded districts of Maharashtra
The move comes as the government is looking at ways to plug evasion amid dismal GST collections with the pandemic driving economy towards recession
The Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) has notified the revised format for e-invoice under GST by replacing existing form and also increased the turnover threshold
Currently, state tax officials administer and control 90 per cent of the assessees below Rs 1.5 crore annual turnover, and the remaining 10 per cent is with the central tax officers.
The minister said that as many as 999 cases were registered till October in the current fiscal for GST evasion and Rs 8,134.39 crore has been recovered.
The minister further said tax department takes appropriate action in suitable cases for evading taxes